Children should not have to pay the price for our irresponsibility. They are innocent human beings, who only know how to play and eat. We all owe it to them to give them the best environment in which to grow and thrive to the best of their abilities. We all have a responsibility towards children;...
When we find ourselves smack in the middle of a pandemic, it becomes increasingly difficult to stick to the plans that one set out. When the year 2020 rolled out, there was much hope, because a new decade would present new opportunities and it was to be a new chapter altogether. The motto was “20-plenty”...
DAR ES SALAAM – Tanzanian opposition heavyweight Tundu Lissu, who was shot 16 times in a 2017 attack, returned home from exile on Monday to challenge President John Magufuli in elections later this year. Lissu, a former MP with the Chadema main opposition party, was welcomed by hundreds of supporters, who clamoured around his car...
LILONGWE – School closures in Malawi due to the coronavirus pandemic have led to an alarming increase in child marriages and early pregnancies, child rights activists and government officials warned on Monday.The Malawian government announced the closure of all schools on March 20, even before a single coronavirus case had been reported in the landlocked...
UNITED NATIONS – The UN Security Council on Monday voiced alarm over Mali’s political crisis and urged all sides immediately to follow West African recommendations for a unity government. The 15-nation body in a statement voiced “deep concern” over the flare-up in the war-torn Sahel nation, which has seen weeks or protests after disputed elections. ...
While Liverpool have waited 30 years to be champions, it is also true that Jurgen Klopp has reached the Holy Grail remarkably quickly. Sir Alex Ferguson had to wait nearly seven years to win the League at Manchester United but Klopp will do it in less than five. It would have been four without Manchester...
The WTA Pan Pacific Open in Japan, one of Asia’s top women’s tennis tournaments, has been scrapped for the first time because of the coronavirus, organisers said yesterday. The cancellation of the event, which was scheduled for November and was won by Japan’s Naomi Osaka last year, follows last week’s axing of all international tennis...
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons guarantee its safety, state media reported Tuesday, signalling once again that it will not give up its arsenal. Kim was addressing a conference of veterans on the 67th anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended Korean War hostilities, the official Korean Central...
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump vowed to defeat the coronavirus by “unleashing American scientific genius” as he toured a COVID-19 vaccine facility in the swing state of North Carolina on Monday. Trump appears to have pinned his hopes on the swift emergence of a successful vaccine to both contain the country’s still raging epidemic...
HARARE – Zimbabwe police on Monday launched a hunt for opposition and union activists, days after a prominent journalist was held for encouraging mass anti-corruption protests. The police appealed in a statement for information on the whereabouts of 14 well-known government critics including trade unionist Peter Mutasa, opposition legislator Job Sikhala and two former youth...