adminNigeria seeks to extend emergency rule in volatile region
ABUJA. – Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday sought a six-month extension of emergency rule in the volatile north-eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe to ensure normalcy is fully restored…
Syrian peace talks stalled as opposition groups split
BEIJING. — The tripartite meeting of the UN, Russia and the United States failed to set a date for the long-delayed Syria peace talks in Geneva, UN-Arab League Joint Special…
Mozambique: 4 soldiers killed in road attacks
MAPUTO. — Mozambique’s state media says Renamo rebel fighters killed four soldiers in two separate attacks amid escalating violence in the central part of the country.
Gaddafi’s son demands to stand trial in Zintan rather than Tripoli
TRIPOLI. — Saif al-Islam, son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has demanded to be tried in the western Libyan city of Zintan rather than Tripoli.
Britain scraps visa bond for ‘high risk’ Africans, Asians
LONDON. — Britain is scrapping a plan to force visitors from six “high-risk” countries to pay a cash bond of £3 000, the interior ministry said on Sunday.
Conservationists demand stiffer penalties against poachers
NAIROBI. — Conservationists have warned that Kenya may lose all elephants to poachers in the next 10 years if penalties against poachers and traffickers are not increased.
When complacency becomes complicity
“When you write and you get the flak from all the dunces making a confederacy against you purely on the basis that they feel offended because you have no sugar…
Mozambique: a ticking time bomb
ON November 5, Haru Mutasa a reporter with Al Jazeera lamented on her blog about how Mozambique’s story was not being told. Haru says in part, “I don’t have an…
Top cop, six others ordered off seized properties
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter THE High Court yesterday ordered top police officer Commissioner Oliver Chibage and his six other accomplices to back off from two properties that they grabbed from…
Sports editor accused of raping maid
Fungai Lupande Court Reporter Alpha Media Holdings group sports editor Simbarashe Rushwaya has appeared in court on allegations of raping his 16-year-old housemaid and was remanded in custody to next…