adminNigerian troops raid hideout over church attacks
KANO. — Nigerian troops killed a suspected Boko Haram militant yesterday during a pre-dawn raid in the city of Kano over weekend attacks against church services that left around 20 people dead. A military task force stormed a two-bedroom bungalow in the troubled northern city’s Bubbugaje district, two days after attackers armed with bombs and guns sowed carnageClinton heads to China
WASHINGTON. — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton headed to China yesterday as US officials raced to find a solution to a sensitive row over a top dissident reportedly holed up at the US embassy in Beijing. Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner had long planned to go to Beijing for the annual meeting between the world’s two largest economies that now is likely
Pasuwa under the spotlight as battered DeMbare shift attention to domestic affairs
Sports Reporter
HARARE giants Dynamos returned to training yesterday, for the first time since their sensational 0-6 Champions League
Tigers, Saints win big as Bulldogs go down
Mbachi Mutukula-Maregre and Takudzwa Chitsiga
THERE was a huge crowd on the second day of the Cottco Rugby festival yesterday where Churchill suffered a 20-24 defeat at the hands South African team Sarel Cilliers in a very tight match. Brian Zungu, Manqoba Mqadi, Ndumiso Ngobese, Mcebo
‘Zim football declining’
Grace Chingoma Sports Reporter
ZAMBIA football technical director, Honour Janza, who was the assistant coach of the triumphant Chipolopolo at the Africa Cup of Nations early this year, believes the standard of Zimbabwean football is declining. The technical director, who was in Hwange
Rangers host Hwange
Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
Veteran defender Nyasha Chazika has been ruled out of action this afternoon as his side Blue Rangers go out in search of a solution for their troubled season against Hwange at Gwanzura this afternoon. Coach Wishes Shiridzinomwa said Chazika, a
Memories of village love letters
Sekai Nzenza
When I was at St Columbus School in the village, I wrote love letters for Chingasiyeni and delivered them in person to Zivanai, the boy from behind the mountains. Chingasiyeni could not write then and still cannot write now, because she could
What are you going to do now?
John Pilger
You are all potential terrorists. It matters not that you live in Britain, the United States, Australia or the Middle East. Citizenship is effectively abolished. Turn on your computer and the US Department of Homeland Security’s National
May Day celebrated globally
JOHANNESBURG/PARIS. — A majority of countries observed International Workers Day yesterday as a public holiday.
Workers’ Day, also known as May Day, originated within the historical struggles of workers and their trade unions for solidarity between workers and people, and in their struggles to achieve fair employment standards. In a show of unity,
Low female representation in Malawi’ new cabinet irks NGO
LILONGWE. — Malawi’s NGO Gender Co-ordination Network on Monday expressed concern over low female representation in President Joyce Banda’s cabinet released last Thursday in which out of 30 ministers and deputies, only eight are female.
Chairperson for the organisation Emma Kalia told local radio Zodiak that the low representation of female ministers in the new