adminMorgan Tsvangirai living in denial
Mathius Kundai I would like to acknowledge – I wish to stir a thought and institute debate. It is neither my desire nor my intention to insult anyone. All respect…
No to Pax Americana
Cynthia McKinney As a representative of the United States people’s movement for justice and peace, I want to start by acknowledging some facts about the practice, as I know it,…
What really happened at Westgate?
Andre Vltchek Thick smoke hangs above the access road to The Westgate – the upmarket shopping mall that serves mainly expats, UN staff and Kenyan elites. Sporadic gunfire and explosions…
Editorial Comment: Madhuku, talk is cheap
WE wish National Constitutional Assembly chairman Professor Lovemore Madhuku all the best as he throws his hat into the political arena.
National interest trumps political affiliation
It is always with great hesitation that I turn my pen against a fellow comrade. However, national interest trumps political affiliation. I cannot remain silent in the face of gross…
Kenya still holding 9 suspects
NAIROBI. – The Kenyan government yesterday announced that it was still holding nine suspects of the Westgate attack. Interior Affairs cabinet secretary Joseph Lenku said that police had taken witnesses…
Opposition leader denies plagiarism allegations
BERLIN – Germany’s centre-left parliamentary opposition leader Frank-Walter Steinmeier denied allegations yesterday that he plagiarised parts of his PhD thesis after similar charges have claimed several political scalps in recent…
Netanyahu vows to ‘expose’ Iran
JERUSALEM. – Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to “expose the truth” about Iran as he set off for a US trip yesterday, a day after US president Barack Obama…
South Africa on terror alert
JOHANNESBURG. – South Africa was placed on a high security alert yesterday after Samantha Lewthwaite (“white widow”) – believed to be the mastermind behind the terrorist attack in Kenya –…
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen massacre 40 students
DAMATURU. – Suspected Islamist militants stormed a college in northeastern Nigeria and shot dead around 40 male students, some of them while they slept early yesterday, witnesses said.