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AFTER the electoral crisis that has dominated the aftermath of elections in Cote d’Ivoire, Robert Mukondiwa travelled to West Africa’s grandest economy to read the mood on the ground and…
EU set to renew illegal sanctions regime
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The European Union is expected to meet next week in Brussels, Belgium to renew the bloc’s illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Mubarak moves towards reforms
CAIRO.Egyptian Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that President Hosni Mubarak took another step towards democratic reforms, as he approved a committee to oversee constitutional changes yesterday.“The president signed a decree…
Illegal immigrants out
MAPUTO. — Mozambique will soon repatriate a group of 444 illegal Asian immigrants who were sent back from South Africa after they entered the country illegally, a police spokesman said…
Anti-Gbagbo groups on the backfoot
ABUJA.THE West African bloc Ecowas yesterday slammed attempts to compromise with Cote d’Ivoire strongman Laurent Gbagbo, saying international solidarity against him had waned.James Victor Gbeho also singled out South Africa…
. . . rejects Western dictates
CAIRO.Egyptian government rejects any outside dictates, especially from the Western countries, Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Sunday.There is a big difference between the world interest in developments in…
Drought threatens China’s crops
BEIJING.Minimal rainfall or snow this winter has crippled China’s major agricultural regions, leaving many of them parched. Crop production has fallen sharply, as the worst drought in six decades, shows…
Illegal tree cutting in Hurungwe declines
From Noah Pito in HurungweHurungwe Rural District Council says its ban on use of firewood by tobacco farmers when curing their crop has been a success as evidenced by the…
Rains spoil maize crop
By Noah Pito in HURUNGWELack of cash to buy top-dressing fertiliser and heavy rains in Hurungwe’s ward 16 has reduced many farmers’ prospects of a bumper harvest this agricultural season.Ward…
Iran vows to continue nuke programme
Chinhoyi BureauTehran will continue developing and using nuclear technologies for its people’s benefit regardless of the West’s attempts to demonise the programme, Member of the Council of the Iranian Supreme…