Robert Mugabe began his last-ditch fight to stay in power in Zimbabwe, sending his self-styled "war veterans" to march ominously through the capital, Harare, yesterday, silently taunting the country with the threat of a return to the violence and intimidation

A Nairobi court has terminated abuse of office charges against Solicitor-General, Mr Wanjuki Muchemi.

AN employee with a parcel transport company was charged in a Nakuru court with being in possession of ivory tusks.

THE Sabaot Land Defence Force's alleged spiritual leader, Mr Jason Manyiror Psongoywo, has been charged in a Bungoma court with promoting war-like activities.

The Clerk to the National Assembly, Mr Samuel Waweru Ndindiri, is dead.

The Gambia on Wednesday ratified the Anti-terrorism bill 2008 at the Second meeting of the National Assembly in the 2008 Legislative Year.

In a letter dated 5th March 2008 sent to the Daily Observer, the Office of the President, the Secretary of State for Local Government and Lands, Governor of Western Region, Inspector General of Police and the Director of Physical Planning,

As Machiavelli, the classical political theorist, said take a man's life and people will forget it because they can't bring him back to life, but take a man's property and they will fight you to the end in the hope

Police have stopped lawyers for Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) from entering the High Court in Harare, where they were scheduled to ask for an order that last week's presidential election results be released.

Last week, the Independent news magazine, founded by Andrew Mwenda, was raided by state security agents for reasons not entirely clear. The Daily Monitor and its sister company the Kfm radio station are always one phone call and one raid

The Inspector General of Police, Mike Okiro yesterday carried out his threat to either arrest or fish out police officers that falsify documents or impersonate during or after entry into the force by ordering the immediate retirement of the Deputy

Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) reasserted on Saturday that it had won outright last week's presidential election and signalled its reluctance to go into a second round run-off .

A jubilee year to celebrate the 50 years of the diocese of Ouahigouya, in Burkina Faso, will close in November on the Feast of Christ the King with a triduum of celebrations including the priestly ordination of 7 deacons and

In Zimbabwe political confrontation turns bitter between the Opposition which won a parliament majority and the government of outgoing President Robert Mugabe. While the MDC Opposition party (Movement for Democratic Change), has said it will lodge a protest against delayed

Witness AliShire said he saw the bodies lying underneath a blown-up vehicle in the northern Mogadishu neighbourhood of Heyle Baris, but fled the scene after Ehiopian troops began shooting at passers-by. At least two men were injured by the gunfire,

A week after Morgan Tsvangirai's opposition party made a strong showing at the polls, it was clear the 84-year-old Mugabe still had at his disposal the feared veterans of the bush war that helped end white minority rule, as well

Spokesman Nelson Chamisa said Saturday that Zimbabweans are aware of the challenges of fighting a dictatorship, but added that the people need help from the international community. The party of President Robert Mugabe has said he would fight to retain

Zanu-PF agreed on the strategy after a five-hour meeting to discuss the biggest crisis of Mugabe's 28-year-old rule. Zanu-PF lost control of parliament for the first time in last Saturday's election but no official results have yet been released. Tsvangirai's

The Mayor of the Kumba II Council, Ferdinand Asapngu Nkiaka, has located the swampy area of Fiango Water in Kosala, to nurse some tree species.