A warrant of arrest has been issued for former President of Botswana, Ian Khama, who has been charged with 14 criminal offenses, including unlawful possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property. The warrant was issued by acting regional magistrate, Mareledi Dipate,
President Robert Mugabe’s government will face one of its biggest tests in over six months when civil servants go on strike tomorrow demanding their 2016 bonuses. In sign that the government was panicking over the impending strike, Public Service and Social Welfare minister Prisca Mupfumira resorted to threatening union leaders and civil servants that would heed the
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Dusk falls and thousands of vendors fan out across central Harare. Through the night, they hawk their wares — vegetables, clothes, kitchen utensils, cellphones — from carts, wheelbarrows or even the pavement, transforming the city’s staid business district into a giant, freewheeling village market. On Robert Mugabe Road, around the corner from
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A top investigative journalist in Kenya fears that British-backed police have placed him on their “kill list”, making him a “dead man walking”. Mohammed ‘Moha’ Ali, 35, has spent years exposing extra-judicial killings by Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU). He also revealed Western involvement in the murders, including the identification of targets for the so-called
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According to a report, titled Depression and Other Common Mental Disorders – Global Health Estimates, released last week by the World Health Organization conducted in 2015 here are the countries in Africa with the most cases of depression Djibouti; 5.1 percent of its population is depressed Cape Verde /Tunisia 4.9 of their population depressed Lesotho
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Zimbabwe’s High Court has outlawed corporal punishment for children both at school and in the home. The ruling comes after a parent complained that her child in grade one, a class for six-year-olds, had deep bruises after a beating by a teacher. Linah Pfungwa said her daughter had been punished for failing to have her
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