Family feuds as Mali’s life slips away

LONDON. – The family of Muhammad Ali is embroiled in a bitter feud over the former world heavyweight boxing champion as his life slips away, his brother claimed on Sunday. Rahman Ali said his sister-in-law

Balotelli shines

PARIS. – European big-name soccer strikers enjoyed contrasting fortunes as Mario Balotelli enjoyed a scoring debut for AC Milan to share the spotlight with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo who had

Igesund safe

JOHANNESBURG. – Gordon Igesund’s position as coach of the South African national soccer team has not been threatened by Bafana Bafana’s elimination in the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations,

Africa needs a superstate

Palash Ghosh
While French military airplanes bomb militant targets in the deserts of northern Mali, the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has again asserted his long-held dream of a “United States of

Jesus calls for fishers of men, not of money

Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana

Make belief remarks by clergy are coming fast, in all shapes, sizes and sounds. Like suitors kin on outmanoeuvring one another to a date, they are rattling gaffes from pulpits, knowingly in their hearts

It’s interesting how times change

Professor Said Adejumobi
Everything in life, the adage goes, has its time and season; so is the life of nations and peoples. Civilisations come and go; nations rise and decay. This is the natural cycle for all social creatures and

Let’s take responsibility

Albert Nhamoyebonde
With the finalisation of the Constitution-making process, there has been a sigh of relief that at last, indeed the agreement on the provisional document has been reached at a considerable cost to the

How to distinguish true, false prophets

Takura Rukwati
Welcome to the wisdom corner, a place where issues and misunderstandings over Christianity today are solved by the word of God. In this week’s article, I will be talking a bit about how we can

Schools reopen in liberated northern Mali

SCHOOLS re-opened yesterday in Gao in northern Mali after French and Malian troops moved in and armed Islamists who had held the town for seven months fled, an AFP photographer said. Girls and boys

Cambodia begins cremation

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia began to cremate the body of the country’s most revered King Father Norodom Sihanouk yesterday evening after it had been lying in state for more than three months at the

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