adminBulilima abuse girl tells all
Sukulwenkosi Dube Plumtree Correspondent A GRADE 7 pupil impregnated by a herdsman has told The Chronicle that her abuser slept with her in the same room as her younger siblings…
Kariba South project hits snag
Harare Bureau The China Export and Import Bank has withheld funds for the Kariba South Hydro Power expansion until the government clears its previous loan obligations.
Clinics turn away patients
Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau Chief Patients seeking treatment at Gweru City Council-owned clinics yesterday failed to access services as council workers began an indefinite strike over a number of unresolved…
SA deports 421 Zimbos
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau SOUTH Africa has deported 421 Zimbabweans who had been stuck at the Lindelani Repatriations Holding Centre in Johannesburg for between three to eight months.
Names of xenophobia victims released
DURBAN — The names of the seven people killed during xenophobic violence which erupted in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal in the past weeks, were released by the inter-ministerial committee…
One dead, 241 injured in SA train collision
JOHANNESBURG — At least one person was killed and more than 200 were injured after two commuter trains collided in a suburb of South Africa’s biggest city Johannesburg yesterday, train…
Hundreds rally against president in Burundi, police shoot in air
BUJUMBURA — Police fired tear gas and shot in the air to disperse hundreds of people protesting in the outskirts of Burundi’s capital yesterday against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to…
US TOWN ON FIRE
BALTIMORE — National Guard troops fanned out through the city, shield-bearing police officers blocked the streets and firefighters doused still-simmering blazes early yesterday as a growing area of Baltimore shuddered…
Nepal quake death toll could reach 10,000 — PM
KATHMANDU — The death toll from Nepal’s devastating earthquake could reach 10,000, the prime minister said yesterday, as residents frustrated by the government’s slow response used their bare hands to…
Ukraine rebels fire rocket launchers again
KIEV — Ukrainian military officials said yesterday that separatist rebels in the east have resumed the use of rocket launchers that should have been withdrawn under a February peace deal.