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Senegal Court Sentences Ex-Chadian Military Ruler Hissene Habre To Life For Crimes Against Humanity

Posted on May 31, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

DAKAR – Former Chad president Hissene Habre, a Cold War ally of the West, was convicted on Monday of war crimes and crimes against humanity for ordering the killing and torture of thousands of political opponents during his eight-year rule. The verdict capped a 16-year battle by victims and rights campaigners to bring the former strongman to justice in Senegal, where he fled after being toppled in a 1990 coup in his impoverished central African…

‘Zanu-PF Supporters Gathered In Robert Gabriel Mugabe Square For One Man Million March’

Posted on May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

THE Robert Gabriel Mugabe Square lived up to its billing yesterday when hundreds of thousands of Zanu-PF supporters gathered there in a show of force to celebrate President Mugabe’s legacy and affirm their support for his candidature for the 2018 harmonised elections. The gathering, which coincided with Africa Day, was also in honour of President Mugabe’s tenure as African Union chairman that saw the continental body launch a 50-year development plan, Agenda 2063 which, just…

VP Mnangagwa’s Wife, Auxilia Lands Top Post In Pan African Parliarment

Posted on May 4, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Chirumhanzu-Zibagwe member of the National Assembly Auxilia Mnangagwa has been appointed chairperson of the Southern Region Caucus at the ongoing 2nd Ordinary Session of the 4th Pan African Parliament (PAP). Mnangagwa takes over from Zambia’s Professor Geoffrey Lungwangwa as his country prepares for its own elections. The Southern African Regional Caucus comprises countries in the SADC region. Issues that have continued to dominate debate at the session include human and women rights, ratification of the…

‘Ex United Nations , Secretary General Kofi Annan Urges African Leaders To Leave Once Mandated Time Ends’

Posted on April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 by newzimbabwevision

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan has urged African leaders to leave when their mandated time is up and to avoid excluding opposing voices if elections are to cease contributing to conflicts on the continent. The renowned international diplomat said that while unconstitutional changes to government on the continent had reduced, exclusionary politics threatened to reverse the gains made. “I think Africa has done well, by and large the coups have more or less ended,…

Despite EU Trave Ban, France Invites ‘Vascoda Mugabe’ For UN Climate Talks , Next Month

Posted on November 21, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will, early next month, attend the United Nations (UN) international climate talks (Cop 21) in Paris despite being banned from travelling to Europe. Some western countries are also understood to have opposed the French decision to invite the Zimbabwean leader. The European Union (EU) has since lifted most of its sanctions against Harare but maintained a travel ban against Mugabe and his wife Grace. France will host the annual climate talks from…

Tsvangirai, Swiftly Sends Team To Lobby Khama To Re-establish & Pile Pressure On Mugabe’s Regime

Posted on August 17, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

FORMER Prime Minister and MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has wasted no time in taking advantage of the annual changeover of Sadc’s rotating chairmanship, with a team already in Botswana to lobby the neighbouring country’s leader Ian Khama. Khama is taking over as chairperson following the expiry of President Robert Mugabe’s tenure this week. The Sadc 35th annual summit begins Monday in Gaborone. Impeccable sources told NewZimbabwe.com that Tsvangirai sent a team led by his chief-of…

Zimbabwe Government To Launch Africa-Wide Campaign To End Child Marriages

Posted on August 2, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Government will this week launch an Africa-wide campaign to end child marriages, Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Nyasha Chikwinya said yesterday. The campaign will be launched in Harare. Minister Chikwinya said her ministry was fast-tracking the implementation ofresults-oriented actions against child marriages and rape. “This is to strengthen a zero tolerance attitude towards child marriages and push for the drafting of legislation particularly on this issue,” she said. “To raise more awareness on this menace…

Obama Urges African Union “Nobody Should Be President For Life”

Posted on July 28, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Judging by the applause at the African Union headquarters, Barack Obama hit a chord when he took aim at the continent’s ‘Big Men’, telling them they should quit when their time was up – especially since most have the cash to retire comfortably. In joining African reformists who demand term limits be observed, the U.S. president was lining up squarely against entrenched leaders from Congo Republic to Rwanda and Burundi who are intent on extending their…

‘Air Force One Has Now Landed At Addis Ababa’s International Airport’

Posted on July 26, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

Addis Ababa (AFP) – US President Barack Obama landed in Ethiopia on Sunday, beginning a two-day stay and becoming the first American leader to visit Africa’s second most populous nation. Air Force One touched down at Addis Ababa’s international airport after a short flight north from the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The president was greeted by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn before the 25-car convoy left for the US embassy. The visit will include talks with…

Obama Attends Private Dinner In Nairobi With Step-grandmother & Kenyan Family

Posted on July 24, 2015July 24, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

US President Barack Obama has arrived in Kenya on a trip that will also include a stop in the Ethiopian capital, and a visit to the home of the African Union. Obama landed in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Friday, and was greeted by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta with a handshake and embrace as he stepped off Air Force One. The president’s half-sister Auma was also on the tarmac to welcome him and travel…

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