adminGo well Cde Mwashita, you fought good fight
Correspondent Go ye well gallant fighter and brave comrade. Your blood has, indeed, watered the Zimbabwe flag as we used to sing during the war. You have fought your fight.…
Mourinho still jobless
LONDON. — Former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has not signed a contract with anybody, he said on Saturday, but expects to be back in football in time for the start…
Nation mourns heroine Chitepo •Burial slated for Wednesday •Condolences continue pouring in
Felex Share and Tendai Rupapa— ZANU-PF Central Committee member Cde Victoria Chitepo who died last Friday will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Wednesday. Cde Chitepo (88), the widow…
Arsene Wenger concedes defeat
LONDON. — Sam Allardyce has told old enemy Arsene Wenger that he has missed his best chance of regaining the English Premier League soccer title. Big Sam’s relegation-threatened Sunderland side lost…
Writing the harrowing lives of African children
Christopher Farai Charamba Literature Today I am a huge fan of short stories. Often they have a single exquisitely described setting, a limited number of characters who you immediately get…
‘Brussels’ attackers planned 2nd France assault’
PARIS. — The attackers who struck Brussels on March 22 initially planned to launch a second assault on France, Belgium’s Federal Prosecution Office said yesterday. But the perpetrators were “surprised by…
Food shortages re-ignite GMO concerns
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story AS hunger stalks the land, forcing Government to seek to import more than 700 000 tonnes of the maize to feed 4 million people, we find…
Inside southern Libya’s lawless people smuggling hub
Tom Westcott Correspondent As warmer weather brings calmer seas, more and more migrants are setting off again from the Libyan coast in smugglers’ boats bound for Italy. Eight vessels containing 1…
Somalia executes 2 Al-Shabaab militants
MOGADISHU. — The Somali military court on Saturday executed two Al-Shabaab militants behind last year’s murder of a female journalist who worked for state media. The court found that Abdirisak Mohamed…
Barcelona hit slump
MADRID. — Leaders Barcelona’s Anoeta Stadium jinx struck again when they lost 1-0 at Real Sociedad on Saturday, their second successive defeat in the Spanish La Liga. Elsewhere, Cristiano Ronaldo became…