adminNigeria floods kill 1, leave 575 homeless
Kano — Officials say floods from heavy rains killed one person and left 575 people homeless in northern Nigeria’s biggest city of Kano. Regional emergency disaster manager Musa Ilallah says…
Six die as Sierra Leone bridge collapses
Freetown — Rescuers said on Monday they had called off the search for survivors after a decades-old bridge collapsed in heavy rain in the capital of Sierra Leone, killing six…
Keita faces Tuareg challenge
BAMAKO — Mali’s new president-elect Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is now presented with the challenge of finding a resolution to the simmering separatist rebellion in the country’s north.
Zanu-PF win decisive, incontestible: UK paper
Hebert Zharare Political Editor PRESIDENT Mugabe and Zanu-PF decisively won the harmonised elections, obviating the need for any challenge legal or otherwise, the British establishment paper The Guardian has said.
Rebels detain UN chopper in Sudan
Khartoum — A helicopter and its crew contracted by peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur have been “detained” by rebels in the troubled region for 10 days, the mission said yesterday.
Surgeon takes heroin from patient’s stomach
MOSCOW — A Russian surgeon has been arrested for taking a five-gram bag of heroin he found in a patient’s stomach. “The doctor was intoxicated at the time of detention,”…
Court to hear Tsvangirai’s poll cases
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter The Electoral Court is today expected hear the two urgent chamber applications by MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai in which he is requesting several election records…
Technician pleads guilty in hepatitis outbreak
BOSTON — A former hospital technician infected with hepatitis pleaded guilty to stealing syringes filled with painkiller, injecting himself with the drug, refilling the dirty needles with saline solution and…
1 250 defence forces officers get medals
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter President Mugabe yesterday conferred 1 250 Zimbabwe Defence Forces officers with medals after they distinguished themselves as principled, loyal and dedicated members since they were attested…
ZDF is for every citizen: Chiwenga
Innocent Ruwende Senior Reporter The Zimbabwe Defence Forces is apolitical and mandated to defend Zimbabweans regardless of their political affiliation, ZDF commander, General Constantine Chiwenga has said. He slammed some…