Chiredzi — WARRIORS interim assistant coach Taurayi Mangwiro is set to end his five-year flirtation with Premiership football side Triangle when his contract expires at the end of this month. Mangwiro and his assistants Tafadzwa Mashiri and Innocent Chogugudza opted against extending their contracts at the Lowveld-based side. The decision came as a shock to […]
The Turkish Red Crescent has distributed humanitarian aid to the families affected by the ongoing drought in Southern Somalia. In a brief statement, the Turkish Red Crescent said they distributed 4,000 parcels of food to families in Luglow and Baarcaleen in Kismayo. “In cooperation with Republic of Turkey Ministry of Interior Disaster and Emergency Management […]
President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo has called for the cessation of hostilities as fighting resumes in the coastal town of Bosaso. “The President, calls for an immediate end to the fighting and for a lasting solution to the conflict in Bosaso,” Villa Somalia said in a statement. The President sent his condolences to the families who […]
Malagasy President Andry Rajoelina declared a national day of mourning Thursday to commemorate 85 people killed in a shipwreck off the country’s coast on Monday. All of the country’s flags are being flown at half-mast “in memory of the victims of the sinking of the Francia boat at Soanierana Ivongo,” the Madagascar-Tribune wrote. Maritime authorities […]
When I thought I had witnessed enough drama courtesy of the City of Harare, a bigger surprise was to close the year 2021. This time, the MDC Alliance (MDC-A) led council, slept on duty as a house was built on a tarred street. Yes, this happened in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. As philanthropist Maya Angelou, rightfully […]
ON December 16, 2012, Zimbabwe lost a great servant of the game, Adam “Adamski” Ndlovu, in a road accident. He was en-route to the tourist city of Victoria Falls together with his young brother Peter “Nsunkusonke” Ndlovu for a social football match at Chinotimba Stadium. Peter escaped with his life but Adam was not so […]
Buchanan — After several consultations and meetings with miners in several mining communities around Liberia with the sole aim of promoting sustainablemining within the artisanal and small scale mining sector (ASM), the Ministry of Mines and Energy in consultation with the Environmental protection Agency (EPA) and the Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia […]
Rabat — A quake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale was recorded Thursday in Al Hoceima province, said the National Institute of Geophysics (ING). The tremor, whose epicenter is located in the commune of Ait Youssef Ouali, occured at 2H 54min 26sec a.m. (GMT+1), said the National Network of Monitoring and Seismic Alert, under […]
Africa Rice has recently held a three-day training workshop on an integrated rice-fish farming system in Fish Town, River Gee County. The training workshop is the first ever to be conducted under the European European (EU) – funded Integrated Rice-Fish Farming System (IRFFS) project in the southeast. The workshop brought together 39 household farmers from […]
There had been fears that the 2022 Nations Cup could be cancelled because of the fourth wave Amidst a fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and the more communicable Omicron variant, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has reiterated her stance that the Africa Cup of Nations Cup tournament scheduled to kick off on January […]
Al Rayyan (Qatar) — Egyptian Al Ahly on Wednesday won their eighth CAF Super Cup after edging out Raja Club Athletic 6-5 in a dramatic post-match penalties shootout after a 1-1 draw in regulation time. The CAF Champions League holders had forced the game into extra time after Mohamed Taher had scored the equalizer at […]
Suakoko — As part of efforts to providing safe drinking for Liberians, Club Kwatekeh of Kentucky in the United States of America, has dedicated a hand pump to residents of the Suakoko Leprosy Rehabilitation Center in Bong County. Speaking during the dedicatory ceremony, the Senior Advisor to the President of the organization, Stanley Cooper, said […]
Paynesville — World steel giant, operating in Liberia, ArcelorMittal, has donated 3,000 sets of Covid-19 test kits to the Ministry of Health to help combat the deadly COVID-19 Pandemic. The steel giant made the donation Wednesday, December 22 at the Ministry of Health office in Congo Town. ArcelorMittal Liberia did not disclose the total cost […]
Monrovia — Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, whose granddaughter is one of several students who reportedly received a nude photo from American instructor, Douglas Matthew Vargas of the Our Lady of Grace International School, has expressed concern over the allegation and expressed empathy to all affected families. Vargas, a former Peace Corps here in Liberia […]
Monrovia — United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in collaboration with Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Education has officially launched the COVID-19 crisis response assistance to vulnerable school-going children and their families. The project is being funded by the Government of the People’s Republic of China and is the first take-home ration to […]
Monrovia — The formation of a collaborative opposition bloc with the sole purpose of solidifying forces to unseat the George Weah-led administration was, perhaps, a bad omen for the opposition political parties. Now, everything is amiss. Mitigations have failed, and mitigations are still on-going. Early this week, there were unconfirmed reports of the Unity Party […]
President Paul Kagame on Wednesday, December 22, emphasised the pressing need for EAC countries to work more closely so as to minimise the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on regional economies. The President was speaking during the extraordinary Summit of Heads of State in which they met virtually and recommended that imminent negotiations paving […]
Government is seeking to promote ‘briquette fuel’ as one of the alternative wood and charcoal as a source of cooking energy. However, investors have pointed out that the lack of cook stoves that use briquette is still a challenge, and hence hinder its penetration. Briquettes are produced by compressing biomass residues like sawdust (powdery particles […]