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Comoros Power Grab Rejected By Opposition, Amid Pleas for International Intervention

Comoros Power Grab Rejected By Opposition, Amid Pleas for International Intervention

President Azali Assoumani of the Comoros Islands is tightening his grip on power. First, he insisted on holding a referendum allowing him to extend his term of office and abolish the country’s constitutional court. Which he won. And now, the lawyer of former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi has said that his client has been charged […]

LIVE: Constitutional Court proceedings in Zimbabwe election petition kick off

LIVE: Constitutional Court proceedings in Zimbabwe election petition kick off

All eyes are on Zimbabwe as the country’s Constitutional Court hears the petition lodged by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in his bid to overturn President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory in the July 30 elections. Get the live updates here ———————————————————– 19:01 Thembinkosi Magwaliba, representing Mnangagwa, dismissed claims that the opposition had produced any evidence of fraud. […]

Shock as ZBC demands US$13,000 for ConCourt poll challenge live feed

Shock as ZBC demands US$13,000 for ConCourt poll challenge live feed

PRIVATE and international broadcasters wishing to broadcast Wednesday’s high-profile Constitutional Court (ConCourt) election challenge hearing to their different world audiences will have to pump out up to US$13,000 to get the ZBC live signal from the apex court. ZBC was granted the sole right to broadcast the MDC Alliance poll challenge at ConCourt. According to […]

Now not the time to disengage, BZA leader Noah Manyika to Zimbabweans

Now not the time to disengage, BZA leader Noah Manyika to Zimbabweans

“Now is not the time to disengage,” losing presidential candidate Noah Manyika said in Harare on Thursday, urging Zimbabweans to continue their new-found political activism, both at home and abroad. Manyika, who leads the Build Zimbabwe Alliance, says Zimbabweans have made the mistake of only pressing for electoral reforms when elections are imminent – and […]

Chamisa was sloppy – Emmerson Mnangagwa

Chamisa was sloppy – Emmerson Mnangagwa

PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s lawyers of insulting the judiciary at campaign rallies and also failing to submit all the alleged evidence of vote rigging and manipulation of the July 30 elections before the Constitutional Court, where he is challenging the presidential results. In his voluminous response, Mnangagwa said […]

Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika throws weight behind Chamisa

Build Zimbabwe Alliance leader Noah Manyika throws weight behind Chamisa

BUILD Zimbabwe Alliance (BZA) leader Noah Manyika has joined his MDC Alliance counterpart Nelson Chamisa in disputing results of the July 30 presidential election, citing alleged systematic manipulation of figures to ensure President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s victory. Manyika, in his response to Chamisa’s election petition filed at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) last Friday, claimed that the […]

So far, signs not pointing to investor interest in Zimbabwe

So far, signs not pointing to investor interest in Zimbabwe

A quick search done on Zimbabwe on the Google search engine yesterday in the morning under the news section, before scrolling down the page, gave eight stories on the country, with five being negative. Therefore, if a foreign investor did a simple web search of the country today, the news they would be met with, […]

Divisions rock President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legal team

Divisions rock President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legal team

DIVISIONS have reportedly rocked President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legal team after it emerged that some of his lead lawyers gave him a wrong interpretation of the operations of the law regarding MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa’s Constitutional Court (ConCourt) presidential election challenge. Highly-placed sources in the legal fraternity told NewsDay yesterday that Mnangagwa had pencilled his […]

Which Way Now for Zimbabwe as Constitutional Court Receives Petition Against Election Results?

Which Way Now for Zimbabwe as Constitutional Court Receives Petition Against Election Results?

Many in Zimbabwe are questioning whether the country can break with its horrid past or embrace a new future after a watershed election that saw Emmerson Mnangagwa win the presidential race by a narrow margin and the opposition lodge a formal petition challenging the results in the Constitutional Court. Mnangagwa–a trusted and past enforcer of […]

Mnangagwa’s lawyers try to prejudice Court in Chamisa case

Mnangagwa’s lawyers try to prejudice Court in Chamisa case

President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED)’s lawyers have engulfed themselves in matters that could be prejudicial to the Constitutional Court, by discussing and commenting on matters that have been put before the honourable court. These learned lawyers seem to have thrown ethics through the window, and are busy making statements that could be seen as attempts to […]

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