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Blantyre — Malawi police fired teargas to disperse dozens of rioters in the south-eastern city of Mangochi yesterday, as the country nervously awaited the release of results from last week’s…
Rival cabinets meet in Libya political chaos
Tripoli — Libya’s contested new cabinet convened for the first time on Thursday, defying the outgoing administration, which refuses to hand over power and held its own session.
Children raped, forced to eat faeces in India school
New Delhi — The owner and manager of a children’s boarding school in western India have been arrested after five minors said they were raped, forced to watch pornographic films…
Protesters demand CAR govt resigns
Security forces fired warning shots as protesters gathered in Bangui demanding the resignation of the interim government and the removal of foreign troops from Central African Republic.
Nigeria’s leader vows to bring girls home
Abuja — Nigeria’s leader vowed on Thursday to “do everything possible to bring our daughters home”, referring to the mass abduction of more than 300 schoolgirls, and said that the…
Are women more loving than men?
Vaidah Mashangwa THE International Day of Families has come and gone. It is commemorated every year on May 15 the world over. This year’s international theme was “Families Matter for…
Johane Masowe Enguwo Tsvuku — where dreadlocks rule supreme
Features Correspondent THE entranced voices of the congregants reverberate across the valley. Madzibaba Joshua, a lanky man sporting dreadlocks, a shiny goatee and a plain red garment, sprinkles “holy water”…
Editorial Comment: MDC-T must stop intimidating media
Without a substantive campaign message going into all seven elections Zimbabwe has had since 2000, MDC-T has tried to form a negative one centred on President Mugabe’s advanced age and…
A revolution in human dignity
Stephen Mpofu Perspective Teachers not up to scratch with their Science, Maths and English core subjects in education can whinge and whinge themselves hoarse, turn and twist in their beds,…
Stoning victim’s husband killed first wife
The husband of a woman stoned to death in Pakistan killed his first wife four years ago, police and relatives said. Zulfiqar Hameed, a deputy inspector general for Punjab police,…