adminBulawayo sitting on health time bomb
Temba Dube Senior Reporter TORRENTIAL rains pounding Bulawayo have precipitated an environmental and humanitarian concern with sewer pipes in most parts of the city now overflowing. Chronicle toured Selborne Park,…
Another End Times Message leader arrested for rape
Midlands Correspondent GWERU businessman and leader of the local branch of the Independent End Times Message, Oscar Mazvarirofa, has been arrested for allegedly raping an eight year old girl before…
Reform schools for murderous teenagers
Leonard Ncube Court Reporter TWO teenagers that accidentally killed their neighbour were yesterday sentenced to a wholly suspended five years imprisonment. The teenagers aged 15 and 16, both from Bulawayo’s…
Magistrate hits out at pupils
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent SCHOOL pupils, who for fun stole goods worth $23, were yesterday warned against the dangers of choosing crime as a career. Sentencing two boys aged 15…
Chronicle loses $12,000 to newspaper vendor
Victoria Falls Reporter A VICTORIA Falls based Chronicle vendor has been arrested for defrauding the company of more than $12,000 he failed to remit from newspaper sales in the resort…
Niger calls for international intervention in Libya
Paris — Niger yesterday called for Western intervention to eradicate a growing threat from Islamist fighters who have established bases in southern Libya since the 2011 overthrow of Colonel Muammar…
Kenyatta case has ‘collapsed’, defence tells ICC
The Hague — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s defence team said yesterday his crimes against humanity case before the International Criminal Court “has collapsed”, as judges considered dropping the high-profile trial.…
Archbishops ‘clash over gay unions’
Cape Town — A Kenyan Anglican head has reportedly opposed calls made by his Britain colleagues to recognise gay unions, saying “this would impact negatively on society”. Archbishops of Canterbury…
UN condemns Vatican child abuse cover up
The UN has rejected the Vatican’s argument that it can not implement a children’s rights convention beyond its walls, saying the church has “placed the reputation of the church and…
US condemns Syria barrel bomb raids
US Secretary of State John Kerry has hit out at the “brutality” of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its sustained barrel bomb campaign. In a written statement…