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Abuja — Nigeria’s new president, Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday promised to look into an Amnesty International report urging the International Criminal Court to probe senior military officers for war crimes…
Burundi Presidential elections postponed
BUJUMBURA — Burundi Presidential and parliamentary elections have been postponed in Burundi, an official said yesterday, following weeks of unrest in the capital over President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a…
Dutch lawmaker wants to show Mohammed cartoons on TV
The Hague — Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders has vowed to show cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed on television during time reserved for political parties, after parliament turned down such…
MSU: Senga’s blessing and curse
Arnold Mutemi Features Editor WITH a more than 23,000 strong student population, the Midlands State University has been a blessing and a curse to Senga Township, one of the oldest…
Editorial Comment: Vendors must submit to the law
Streets in most local towns and cities are always teeming with vendors, their wares, their customers and passersby. Their wares are basically everything from toothpicks, rat poison, clothing items, small…
Reviving Thomas Sankara’s spirit
Hisham Aidi THOMAS Sankara, who ruled Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987, was one of the most riveting leaders of the last half-century. A pan-Africanist, Marxist and gifted orator, he…
Parly Committee embarks on Zinara roads survey
Chronicle Reporter THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has embarked on a countrywide assessment of road projects funded by the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara).
Civil servants fume over exclusion in NSSA bank
Harare Bureau Civil servants unions yesterday castigated the government for excluding them from the board of the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) building society that is expected to offer them…
PSMAS lawsuits breach $1,4 million mark
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter PREMIER Service Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) has been slapped with a fresh lawsuit, bringing to more than $1,4 million the amount of money local medical…
Vendors under pressure to meet deadline
Chronicle Reporters VENDORS are under pressure to leave the streets for designated areas before Monday’s deadline that was issued by the government. Bulawayo City Council yesterday issued a notice saying…