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Aden – Militants stormed the defence ministry in the heart of Yemen’s capital on Thursday, killing 52 people, including at least seven foreigners, in a suicide car bombing and assault…
Iran, World powers to meet on nuclear deal implementation
Iran and six world powers plan expert-level talks next week to work out details of implementing a breakthrough agreement for Tehran to curb its disputed nuclear programme in return for…
Pope creates agency to tackle sex abuse
Pope Francis will establish a special commission to help protect children from sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, the archbishop of Boston announced on Thursday.
Comment: Mandela: A man who made positive global impact
Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically-elected President had been ill for the past four years or so. He received the best medical attention South Africa could offer. Due to his…
Zimbabwe on threshold of economic boom
Stephen Mpofu The impact of foreign aid from the rich North to the poor South can crack smiles on shrunken faces, or it can turn faces into chopped steak.
Mandela’s greatness may be assured, but not his legacy
John Pilger When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister’s residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited…
Zimbabwe: Beggars should not go for luxury
Joram Nyathi Once upon a time there was a man, one Hon David Coltart. He declined a ministerial Mercedes Benz on his appointment as Education Minister. This gesture elicited sneers…
Mandela legacy: Peace, but poverty for many blacks
IN the 10 years after he withdrew from public life, Nelson Mandela divided his time between a mansion in one of Johannesburg’s wealthiest suburbs and his ancestral home in Qunu,…
World mourns Madiba
LONDON. — People gathered in cities around the world to make their own personal tributes to Nelson Mandela yesterday, leaving flowers and setting up makeshift shrines in an outpouring of…
Editorial Comment: Mandela: The next logical stage
When the day came it almost looked like a form of release for a media that had for months been obsessed with Nelson Mandela’s mortality. There had been a media…