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ABUJA/LAGOS — Heavy casualties were feared as a multi-storey building collapsed at Apo Mechanic Village located in Nigeria’s capital city Abuja yesterday morning, trapping an unconfirmed number of people, officials said.Tunisia seeks to quell religious tension
TUNIS — Tunisia’s government blamed Salafists and old regime loyalists yesterday for the worst unrest since Zine el Abidine Ben Ali’s ouster but dismissed suggestions Al-Qaeda initiated the violence.Australia says early release of Libya lawyer unlikely
SYDNEY — Foreign Minister Bob Carr said yesterday an Australian lawyer and three others held in Libya were entitled to immunity, but admitted the chances of their early release appeared slim.Bangladesh jet in
Sports ReporterRICHARD PYBUS, the Bangladesh cricket coach, says the forthcoming tri-angular series involving hosts Zimbabwe and South Africa should give the three teams a chance to prepare their squads for the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup.
Brendon Dawson happy with Goshawks preps
Mbachi Mutukula-MaregereSports Reporter
GOSHAWKS’ coach, Brendon Dawson, is happy with the teams’ preparations for the friendly match against visiting South Afrian side Valke at Harare Sports Club tomorrow evening.
Young Sables expected in USA
Paul Munyuki in UTAH, United StatesTHE Zimbabwe Under-20 rugby side are expected here today for the Junior World Rugby Trophy tournament having spent 11 days in Castres, France, where they camped for their final preparations.
MDGs: Will Africa succeed?
Much debate surrounds the real progress made by Africa to date with regards to attaining the Millennium Development Goals. The aim of having the millennium goals was to encourage development by improving socio-economic conditions in the world’s poorest countries.Prophets, prophecy and prosperity
The hunt for material gain and wealth is the reason people go to school, colleges and universities, toiling hard to pass often hard-set examinations — the reason why African nations got colonised by wealth hunters in the 19th century, and the reason people hunt for employment in urban areas, even resorting to homelessness while waiting for the golden opportunity to get a job.
Zuma team overstepping mandate — legal experts
Felex Share Herald Reporter
THE South African facilitation team is overstepping its mandate by engaging small political parties outside the inclusive Government, legal experts and political observers said yesterday.
They said the team was now operating outside the Global Political Agreement framework.
Sadc facilitator South African President Jacob Zuma’s backroom team was in Harare on Monday and met small parties’ representatives in Harare.
The parties are MDC 99, Democratic Party, Zapu and Zanu Ndonga.
The team had earlier met the GPA negotiators.
Constitutional lawyer Professor Lovemore Madhuku yesterday described the approach by Mr Zuma’s team as “stupid”.
“We were surprised by their conduct. Their mandate is to assist GPA parties implement and solve outstanding issues, not to engage other political parties.
Sadc supports Namibia’s bid to host climate secretariat
Kizito SikukaThe Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has endorsed a bid by Namibia to host the secretariat for the Green Climate Fund. The fund, established in December 2011 at Durban, South Africa, during the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change