adminMakomo Resources acquires $14m coal washing plant
Business Reporter MAKOMO Resources has acquired a $14 million coal washing plant aimed at upgrading the quality of coal for the market, an official has said. In an interview yesterday,…
State-owned investment fund way to go
Kennedy Mavhumashava THE Zanu-PF election manifesto for the July 31 poll sets out three broad categories of indigenous beneficiaries to secure 51 percent shareholding of foreign firms under the indigenisation…
Caribbean nations seek reparations from former colonial masters
Glen Ford TWELVE English-speaking Caribbean nations, plus Haiti and the South American country Surinam, are going to court demanding reparations from their former colonial masters for the crime of slavery.…
Property developers make owning own home a pipe dream
Factmore Dzobo “MY stand was repossessed by a greedy land developer who resold it to someone else after I had failed to pay up my monthly installments. I did not…
Obama dishonest and untrustworthy: survey
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama’s popularity has slumped to an all-time low, with a majority of Americans for the first time believing him to be dishonest and untrustworthy, a…
Rebel integration plan needed for DRC
KINSHASA — The Democratic Republic of Congo needs a plan to disarm, demobilise and reintegrate ex-rebels, the United Nations said yesterday, a week after helping the army defeat the 18-month-old…
Palestinian peace talks delegation resigns: Abbas
PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of progress in US-brokered statehood talks clouded by Israeli settlement building. The development would mark a…
Ousted President Morsi accuses Egypt’s military chief of treason
CAIRO — Egypt’s ousted president, Mohammed Morsi, accused the military chief of treason yesterday and said the country won’t be stable until he is returned to office. Morsi’s statement was…
US blacklists Nigeria’s Boko Haram as terror group
WASHINGTON — The United States yesterday designated Nigeria’s radical Islamist Boko Haram network and an offshoot known as Ansaru as terror groups, bowing to months of pressure to act. Both…
Eight crushed in collapse after survivors loot Philippines rice factory
SURVIVORS of the Philippines typhoon are becoming ever more desperate — triggering a series of clashes with the authorities and increasingly making it unsafe for aid organisations to do their…