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Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter POLICE yesterday released two more names of suspects linked to the running of the faceless Facebook page, Baba Jukwa. National police spokesperson Senior Assistant Commissioner Charity…
Non-Ndebele speaking teachers probe on ice
Pamela Shumba Senior Reporter THE proposed probe by the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education into the deployment of non-Ndebele speaking teachers in Matabeleland has reportedly been shelved.
Man ‘burns, kills’ HIV positive lover
Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent A Gutu man at the weekend reportedly doused his girlfriend with five litres of paraffin and set her on fire leading to her death following an…
Obert Mpofu in $10m bribe storm
Daniel Nemukuyu Senior Reporter The National Prosecution Authority will soon summon former Mines and Mining Development Minister Obert Mpofu to testify in the $2 billion diamond fraud case in which…
Iraq leader mulls ditching US for Iran
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is reportedly considering plans to abrogate the country’s security deal with the US and establish closer links with Iran and Russia.
UK to investigate politicians over child sex abuse
LONDON — Britain pledged yesterday to investigate allegations that politicians may have sexually abused children in the 1980s and then used their positions to scuttle attempts to uncover their crimes.
63 escape from Boko Haram captors
NAIROBI — Sixty three women abducted two weeks ago by Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram are reported to have escaped from their captors in the north-eastern state of Borno,…
Eduard Shevardnadze dies at 86
TBILISI — Eduard Shevardnadze, who helped end the Cold War as the Soviet Union’s last foreign minister before becoming president of Georgia, died yesterday at the age of 86.
Anti-government protests in Kenya amid worries about ethnic strife
THOUSANDS of Kenyans joined a Nairobi rally to highlight what they see as the government’s failings — worsening insecurity, living costs, corruption, terror attacks. Some fear renewed ethnic strife.
Kombi driver hangs self
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Reporter A KOMBI driver from Iminyela suburb in Bulawayo yesterday allegedly killed himself by hanging over problems with his ex-wife. Michael Foto whose age could not be…