adminCouncil slashes resident’s crops to the ground
By Nqobile Moyo with pix
THE Bulawayo City Council yesterday slashed maize crops already at tasseling stage and vegetables along Mazai River in Makokoba as the local authority intensifies measures against illegal urban farming.
SILUNDIKA HOUSE SAGA: Gardener engages lawyers!
THE former gardener embroiled in a house wrangle with the children of the late national hero, Cde George Silundika, has secured the services of a lawyer while war veterans in Bulawayo have vowed to block him from acquiring the nationalist’s estate.
Anti-Obama heckler disrupts US Congress
WASHINGTON – A woman screaming that President Barack Obama was not legitimately elected to the White House disrupted a symbolic reading of the US Constitution in the House of Representatives on Thursday.
Don’t send troops here, Ivory Coast Bishops warn ECOWAS
ABIDJAN – Ivory Coast’s Catholic bishops warned West Africa Thursday against sending troops to their restive country to oust strongman Laurent Gbagbo.
US steps up efforts to oust Gbagbo, freezes his assets
WASHINGTON – The US Treasury froze the assets of defiant Ivorian strongman Laurent Gbagbo, his wife Simone and three of their inner circle Thursday, as Washington stepped up efforts to oust them from power.
Ivory Coast rival urges raid to snatch Gbagbo
ABIDJAN – Laurent Gbagbo’s rival Alassane Ouattara in Ivory Coast’s disputed election Thursday called for a bloodless raid by west African special forces to snatch the coco rich country’s leader and “take him elsewhere” amid fears of civil war.
Silundika’s house saga takes new twist
THE house wrangle involving the children of the late national hero, Cde George Silundika and a former gardener who got married to his widow yesterday took a new twist with the family, arguing that it was not aware that the two got married.
4 million pass through Beitbridge boarder post over the holiday
BEITBRIDGE-THE number of travellers who passed through Beitbridge Border Post between January and December last year doubled to four million compared to the previous year.
Officials jostle for positions following Tsvangirai’s declaration
A PRESS conference called by Mr Gorden Moyo, to do damage control on factionalism that is tearing MDC-T apart in Matabeleland was much ado about nothing as the former civic society activist failed to articulate himself well.
Ouattara rejects Gbagbo’s offer of compromise offer
NAIROBI- The African Union (AU) envoy, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, reiterated on Wednesday that Cote d’Ivoire’s incumbent Laurent Gbagbo would have amnesty if he agrees to surrender power peacefully.