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Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent A Chitungwiza man, accused of gorging out a policeman’s eye after hitting him with an empty beer bottle, is on the run and was slapped with a…
Cops face fresh extortion charge
Lovemore Meya Court Correspondent Two Chitungwiza-based policemen who are facing $35 extortion charges are back in the dock, this time facing an allegation of demanding $2 000 from a couple they…
Thieving nurse granted $30 bail
Fungai Jachi Court Correspondent A 32-year-old nurse at Harare Central Hospital was yesterday arraigned before the courts for allegedly stealing 21 boxes of sutures (stitches) worth $231 from the maternity ward. Taurai…
China vows financial reforms after yuan’s SDR entry
BEIJING. — China’s cabinet, the State Council, yesterday welcomed the IMF decision to include the yuan in its Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket, seeing an opportunity for further financial reform…
I never said Mandela was a sell-out: Malema
Johannesburg. — EFF leader Julius Malema says he does not believe that the late former president Nelson Mandela was a sell-out, however, he stands by the fact that he made…
Cameroon army kills Boko Haram fighters, frees 900 hostages
Yaounde. — Cameroon troops killed around 100 members of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist group and freed 900 hostages in a three-day operation in the far north of the country, the…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Climate change: Developed world must own up
WHAT if climate change had never occurred, would that still slow down Africa’s economic development ? But now that climate impacts are a painful reality, how will Africa — the world’s…
China-Africa Summit: New starting point for carrying forward China-Africa ties
Zhang Yue Correspondent ON December 4 and 5 of this year, both Chinese and African people will witness a highlighted moment in the history of China-Africa relations as the Summit of…
No messiahs in a revolution
Reason Wafawarova On Thursday The dialogical nature of any revolution lies in its collectiveness, in the cooperation of oppressed people towards the total transformation of the oppressive environment around them.…
The US-Russia proxy war in Syria
Ray McGovern Correspondent Belatedly, at a sidebar meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Paris climate summit on Monday, President Barack Obama reportedly expressed regret for last week’s killing of…