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NAIROBI. – Kenyan lawmakers investigating alleged security failings during the deadly assault on Nairobi’s Westgate mall by Islamist gunmen were due to meet yesterday, as leaders gathered to commemorate the…
Software provider wins tender
Business Reporter Agile Financial Technologies, a leading software provider for insurance, banking and financial services sectors, yesterday announced that it has won a contract to install its Agilis Core General…
If it happened there . . . the Govt shutdown
Joshua Keating WASHINGTON. —The typical signs of state failure aren’t evident on the streets of this sleepy capital city. Beret-wearing colonels have not yet taken to the airwaves to declare…
‘White widow’ paid US$2 000 for fake documents
NAIROBI. — “White widow” Samantha Lewthwaite paid a convicted fraudster US$2 000 for fake documents including passports for her children.
ZTA attaches commended for tourism growth
Zimbabwe Tourism Authority says attaches deployed in different countries abroad to market resort areas have contributed hugely to the 12 percent increase in arrivals.
Tony Rebel caught live!
Fred Zindi Music There couldn’t have been a better venue in Chitungwiza to compliment the sullen intimacy of Tony Rebel (pictured) than The Aquatic Complex where police with dogs patrolled…
Guardiola goes the extra mile
LONDON. – How do you follow perfection? By getting it right again, and to the exact millimetre. Seventeen millimetres, to be precise — the length to which Pep Guardiola ordered…
Fighting forces Mali president back from trip
BAMAKO. – Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will cut short a visit to France amid renewed fighting between insurgents and the military in the African nation.
Seed industry bemoans slow uptake
Business Reporter The seed industry has expressed confidence about Zimbabwe’s seed supply for the 2013/2014 summer cropping season as all provinces have received seed although the uptake has been slow.
Chigumbura sets record
ZIMBABWEAN all rounder Elton Chigumbura yesterday hammered 50 runs in the last 2.5 overs, including a record 39 from the last over of the innings, to propel Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi…