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A stampede at a rap concert on a beach has killed at least 33 people, including 11 children, in the Guinean capital Conakry, hospital officials said.
5 things to know about Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Dakar— There has been panic and fear about the deadly Ebola disease spreading ever since Nigerian health officials reported on Friday that a Liberian man sick with the disease had…
British Airways to be sued over pilot sex abuse
London — Girls and young women who allege they were sexually abused by a British Airways (BA) pilot in African schools and orphanages plan to sue the airline, a law…
Suicide bombers attack 2 mosques in Nigeria
Kano — Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in northeast Nigeria’s Yobe state late on Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring several others, witnesses said.
Libya ex-deputy PM kidnapped in Tripoli
Tripoli — An armed group abducted a former Libyan deputy prime minister and newly-elected MP, Mustapha Abu Shagur, in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, his nephew said.
Save our heritage sites
Cont Mhlanga PASSING through Khami area last week, I noticed a small group of worshippers dressed in white gowns praying right on the top of the sacred Ingulungundu hill. I…
Demonising Zimra at our own peril
Benny Tsododo As a struggling worker who has a chunk of his measly earnings monthly taken up by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), it is tempting to support any criticism…
Editorial Comment: Tsvangirai UK trip a damp squib
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s trip to the United Kingdom which ended yesterday can best be described as a grand exercise in self immolation as it allowed his erstwhile Western interlocutors…
Supreme Court dismisses Prof Moyo’s appeal
Mashudu Netsianda Senior Court Reporter THE Supreme Court yesterday dismissed with costs Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo’s appeal against an earlier High Court ruling which had…
Botha acquitted
Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent A SOUTH African national Lourens Marthinus Botha, 66, who was accused of working without a permit at Doddieburn Ranch in Gwanda District, has been acquitted at…