Video suggests Kenya troops looted Westgate
Kenyan security forces looted merchandise in a Nairobi while storming a shopping centre besieged by al-Shabab fighters, security camera footage appears to show.
China city blanketed in heavy pollution
Beijing – Choking clouds of pollution blanketed a Chinese city famed for its annual ice festival yesterday, reports said, cutting visibility to 10m and underscoring the nation’s environmental challenges.
Egypt searches for church-wedding attackers
Egyptian police are searching for an armed man who killed three people at a church wedding, in the first attack targeting Christians in Cairo since the overthrow of Egypt’s Islamist…
Boko Haram Islamists kill 19 in Nigeria
Kano – Boko Haram gunmen dressed in military uniform on Sunday killed 19 people near the Nigerian border with Cameroon in the restive northeast where the Islamists have carried out…
Two Christian clerics killed on Kenyan coast
Mombasa – Two Christian clerics on Kenya’s coast were killed in separate attacks over the weekend, witnesses said, two weeks after the killing of a Muslim cleric sparked deadly riots…
Gaddafism: an African hero’s legacy lives on
Garikai Chengu This week marks the two-year anniversary of the Western-backed assassination of one of Africa’s greatest leaders: Libya’s former president, Muammar Gaddafi.
Comment: Let’s not downplay effects of illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe’s economy
Zimbabwe’s industry continues to bleed under the illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the United Kingdom, the European Union, the United States and their western allies.
Zim Embassy official killed by SA policeman
Harare Bureau A Zimbabwean Embassy official was shot and killed by a police officer in Pretoria, South Africa on Saturday after he was allegedly mistaken for an armed robber.
Zanu-PF agrees to have Kereke remain Bikita West MP
Harare Bureau ZANU-PF has agreed to have expelled Bikita West National Assembly member Dr Munyaradzi Kereke remain the legislator of the constituency after he took the revolutionary party to the…
Shortage of specialists hits public health institutions
Harare Bureau Nearly half the posts for specialist medical personnel in public health institutions are vacant owing to the failure by Government to offer attractive conditions of service. This has…






