Keeping healthy with the dead: How Zimbabweans try to outpace death with exercise at club in a cemetery
At dawn, 65-year-old Nelly Mutandwa swapped her pyjamas for leggings, a T-shirt and sneakers. She grabbed a bottle of water before heading to an unconventional workout spot: a cemetery in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Surrounded by rows of graves, she joined other members of the Commandos Fitness Club in an hour-long...
Remembering Sam Nujoma: First born in a family of 11, how Namibia’s fiery freedom fighter steered his country to freedom in 1990
Sam Nujoma built ties with North Korea, Cuba, Russia and China, some of which had supported Namibia’s liberation movement by providing arms and training. But he balanced that with outreach to the West, and Nujoma was the first African leader to be hosted at the White House by former US President Bill Clinton in 1993. Clinton called Nujoma “the George Washington of his country” and “a genuine hero of the world’s movement toward democracy.”
Trump cuts funding for South Africa citing land policy and Pretoria’s war case against Israel
US President Donald Trump holds a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the East Room at the White House in Washington, US, on February 7, 2025. Credit: Reuters
US’ suspension humanitarian aid exposes Kenya’s vulnerability as PBOs call for talks between the governments
The PBO’s leadership after a series of consultations in Nairobi pointed out the need for clear communication between the US and Kenyan governments to mitigate the impact of the decision. However, some PBO members acknowledged that Kenya must take responsibility for its own development, viewing the move by the US as a wake-up call.
Why Africa maybe mystical Garden of Eden ceaselessly defiled by its rulers, urged on by colonisers
Africa boasted of a more developed and sophisticated system of governance in which kings wielded authority as confirmed in the Holy Scriptures – the Bible and the Q’uran – as captured by people inspired by God.
Behind every problem in Uganda there’s Museveni, which is how education system was designed to reject children in lower school
If the leadership in place lacks knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insight but continually pretends to have them and gives the impression that no other alternative system can address those problems, then it cannot extricate itself from the problems. You cannot be part of the problems and then cast yourself as the one with the solutions. It is deception.
‘Immense mess’: Italy defies ICC warrants of arrest for Libyan warlord wanted for war crimes
Al-Masri was arrested in Turin on the ICC warrant on January 19 at 9:30am, the day after he arrived in the country from Germany to watch a soccer match. The Italian government has said Rome’s court of appeals ordered him released January 21 because of a technical problem in the way that the ICC warrant was transmitted, having initially bypassed the Italian justice ministry.
How Trump’s ‘America First’ has hit HIV/Aids programmes in Africa after US aid freeze
More than 8 million in South Africa live with HIV, and authorities say PEPFAR helps provide life-saving antiretroviral treatment to 5.5 million people every day.
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces hit open market in Omdurman, kill 54 people and scores suffer injuries
Sudan’s Doctors Syndicate said one mortar shell hit metres (yards) away from al-Naw Hospital, which received most of the market casualties. Chris Lockyear, secretary general of the Doctors Without Borders aid group, was at the hospital when casualties started arriving.
South African opposition accuse President Ramaphosa of poor leadership after M23 rebels kill 13 soldiers
Brett Herron, Secretary General of the GOOD Party, on Tuesday echoed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in vigorously condemning the offensive on the North Kivu regional capital of Goma by the M23 rebels and the support given to them by the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF).
