By Associated Press NEW YORK: Facebook’s privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million users who had photos exposed to a much wider audience than intended. The bug disclosed Friday gave hundreds of apps unauthorized access to photos that could in theory include images that would
By BBC Fire has gutted an electoral commission depot in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the violent run-up to a presidential vote. More than two-thirds of the electronic voting machines allocated for Kinshasa had been destroyed, an official said. The cause of the fire has not been confirmed. Black smoke could
By Bulawayo Correspondent PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed reservations over Justice Tawanda Chitapi’s Thursday judgement which awarded controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo’s Intratrek Zimbabwe the sum of $25 million in damages against the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC). This is after the businessman had taken ZPC to court seeking an order declaring a multi-million dollar contract signed
By Associated Press New York : A Manhattan nanny has been convicted of stuffing a baby wipe down the throat of a 2-month-old boy in her care, nearly killing the child. Marianne Benjamin-Williams was found guilty on Tuesday of attempted murder, assault and strangulation after just one day of deliberations. She’s to be sentenced January
By Bulawayo Correspondent FRAUD accused Siqokoqela Mphoko, son to former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, on Thursday appeared before a Bulawayo regional magistrate in leg irons and was remanded in custody to 21 January next year. He is facing up to 170 counts of fraud and theft for allegedly looting a total $80 000 worth of
By Bulawayo Correspondent CONTROVERSIAL MDC legislator Gift Banda Thursday appeared before a Bulawayo magistrate facing a criminal abuse of duty offence he allegedly committed during his time as city deputy mayor. Banda, who is also party chair for Bulawayo province, is accused of fraudulently processing a lease agreement for a piece of land under the
By Brian Latham I Bloomberg Things are so scarce in Zimbabwe right now that when Fanuel Machipisa sees a line of people outside a shop, he joins it without knowing what he’ll find at the end of it. The queues aren’t hard to come by. With a dearth of foreign exchange leaving importers unable to
By Anna Chibamu RELATIVES of patients admitted at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare have expressed frustration with treatment being given to their loved ones at the country’s largest referral centre as the junior doctors strike continues. The job action is now its second week with the doctors defying government appeals that they return work. In interviews
By Robert Tapfumaneyi FORMER President Robert Mugabe and his family are expected to leave the country shortly for their annual break in the Far East, it has emerged. The government would, as ever, pick up the tab, our sources said this week. While in power, Mugabe hardly took his annual holidays at home, usually leaving
President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Harare Wednesday
By Robert Tapfumaneyi HUMAN rights defenders and activists are up in arms with the Zimbabwe BroadcastingCorporation (ZBC) for airing a television programme that promotes hate against people living with albinism. Many took to social media calling the authorities at the state-owned broadcaster to order and condemning the airing of a programme misinforming thousands of viewers
By AFP Rwanda’s chief prosecutor on Wednesday said he would appeal after dissident politician Diane Rwigara was acquitted in a high-profile trial. On December 6, the High Court found Rwigara not guilty of forgery and inciting insurrection – charges that had seen her imprisoned for more than a year and highlighted a crackdown on opposition
By African News Agency PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to make public the report by the former South African president Kgalema Motlanthe-led commission of inquiry into the 1 August fatal shootings of civilians in Harare. Six people were killed in the deadly shootings, while a seventh person died in a stampede, shortly after the landmark
By Associated Press HARARE: Dressed as Father Christmas, a man dozes off while sitting in a supermarket in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. No one seems to care. The holiday mood is not catching on in a country where a currency crisis has forced people to risk jail time to buy basics such as medicine and food.
By Nkosana Dlamini A BOTSWANA company currently involved in a fierce ownership tussle for retail chain store, Choppies, has made shocking revelations on how former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko was both bribed and used as a front to defeat the country’s indigenisation law that forbade foreigners from anything in excess of 49 percent ownership of
By Anna Chibamu HIGHER and Tertiary Education Minister Amon Murwira says government has no plans to stop its controversial Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) programme but has, instead, cut A’ Level scholarships which he said were being abused by some corrupt authorities. He was responding to questions by MPs during parliament’s question and answer
By Leopold Munhende FORMER South African President Kgalema Motlanthe has reportedly offered to mediate between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC leader Nelson Chamisa in attempts to remedy a political impasse that has thrown the country’s fragile economy into a fresh tailspin. Motlanthe chairs President Mnangagwa’s Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 post-election disturbances that
By Staff Reporter JUSTICE Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has scolded MDC MPs for alleged “tomfoolery” and “childish” behaviour inside the house as he went on to suggest parliament’s Standing Rules and Orders could soon be reviewed to punish offending legislators. He was responding to a question this past week by Rushinga MP, Tendai Nyabani. The Zanu
By Anna Chibamu MPs who form parliament’s energy committee last week demanded government and energy sector coherence on the real fuel situation in the country following continued conflicting statements by players in the industry. The situation has been compounded by repeated government denials stocks of the precious liquid were drying by the day. Following the
AP No one would envy a life of scavenging in Kenya’s biggest landfill, but Daniel Kiarie says he would never leave it. Birds circle overhead and dogs scuffle as the 35-year-old and around 600 people who work here move through the filth of Nairobi, all of them intent on useful finds. Ground-up garbage, from used
