adminTokwe Mukorsi floods raise questions
Ian Scoones Zimbabwe’s heavy rainfall this season has had its costs. The most dramatic has been the major flooding in Masvingo as the long awaited Tokwe Mukorsi dam filled more…
Ghana peacekeepers remember Rwanda genocide
Accra — Several weeks after the Rwandan genocide began, a Ghanaian military officer named Colonel Clayton Yaache organised a convoy to evacuate a group of Rwandans who had sought refuge…
Pro-Moscow protesters seize arms, declare republic; Kiev fears invasion
PRO-MOSCOW protesters in eastern Ukraine seized arms in one city and declared a separatist republic in another, in moves Kiev described yesterday as part of a Russian-orchestrated plan to justify…
‘Shame still clings’ to UN over Rwanda genocide
KIGALI —The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that the world body was still wracked by shame over its failure to act against the genocide in Rwanda 20 years…
‘I’m scared to sleep’, tearful Pistorius tells court
HIS voice trembling with emotion, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defence yesterday, saying the Valentine’s Day shooting of his girlfriend last year had left him sleepless,…
Syria’s Assad secure, will seek re-election – Hezbollah leader
SYRIAN President Bashar al-Assad will stand for re-election this year and no longer faces a threat of being overthrown, the head of his Lebanese Shi’ite ally Hezbollah said in an…
World’s biggest election kicks off
THE first Indians cast their votes in the world’s biggest election yesterday with Hindu nationalist opposition candidate Narendra Modi seen holding a strong lead on promises of economic revival and…
Nigerian clashes kill 72
KADUNA — Clashes in northwest Nigeria between suspected Fulani cattle rustlers mounted on motorbikes and local youth vigilantes from the rival Hausa ethnic group left at least 72 people dead,…
Australia says new ‘pings’ best lead yet in Malaysia jet search
AN Australian ship searching for a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has picked up signals consistent with the beacons from aircraft black box recorders, in what search officials said yesterday was…
Blanket Mine gold output slumps
Mernat Mafirakurewa Business Editor— GOLD output at Caledonia Mining Corporation subsidiary, Blanket Mine, fell 7,2 percent in the first quarter to March 31 due to low grades. Caledonia, however, said…