A Harare court denied bail on Tuesday for 10 former fighters accused of planning to join a protest against President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Magistrate Tapiwa Kuhudzai ordered the group held until November 10 while prosecutors finish their investigation.
Authorities arrested Rose Chirenje, 65, and nine others near Africa Unity Square on October 17 after they gathered to support a demonstration organized by ex-official Blessed Geza. Police say the accused sang and danced while preparing for the One Million Men March that aimed to criticize the president over alleged constitutional violations and government misconduct.
Officers recovered stones and other projectiles near the arrest location. Prosecutors say the group conspired to encourage...
Power failed as Zimbabwe's president concluded his address to parliament on Tuesday, forcing Emmerson Mnangagwa to finish his final 10 minutes under torchlight held by an assistant. The blackout prompted parliamentary speaker Jacob Mudenda to apologize and promise to identify those responsible for what some suspect was deliberate interference.
The incident marks the second major outage at parliament in under a year. A similar failure disrupted the 2024 budget presentation with Mnangagwa present, which the state utility blamed on weather damage to transmission lines.
Political observers suggest the blackout reflects internal conflict within the ruling ZANU PF party over institutional control and leadership direction. One party member...
A Zimbabwean dancehall artist left jail on Tuesday after posting $300 bail while appealing his six-month sentence for illegal possession of cough syrup. Ras Pompy must surrender his passport and report weekly to Matapi Police Station after Justice Wamambo granted his release at the High Court.
Police arrested the musician on July 16 when officers spotted his Honda Fit in traffic and pursued him through Rugare suburb after he fled. His vehicle crashed into a metal pole before detectives searched it and found 99 bottles of cough syrup valued at $396 that people abuse as drugs.
Magistrate Gamuchirai Gore convicted Ras Pompy of breaking the Medicines Control Act after prosecutors proved he carried Broncleer, Benylin, and Astra Pain syrups...
An 11-year-old boy drowned on Saturday afternoon at Crocodile Motel in Rusape after entering deep water that he could not navigate. Effort Mapingo, a Grade 5 student at Mabvazuwa Primary School, died around 3:45 p.m. while swimming with a 10-year-old companion at the facility.
Staff member Milton Rewai pulled the child's body from the pool and alerted police. Authorities transported Mapingo to Rusape General Hospital for examination. Assistant Inspector Wiseman Chinyoka said minors need adult oversight near water, and people should avoid swimming without adequate skills.
The motel operates without a lifeguard or water safety instructor despite public access to its pool. Witnesses reported murky water hampered rescue attempts. Police...
A Zimbabwean court rejected a defense claim that fraud allegations were too old to prosecute, allowing a property dispute lawsuit to advance. Justice Gladys Mhuri determined that fraud cases are not subject to time limits under the nation's prescription laws.
Businessmen David and Darryl Muchinguri, with their firm Sagnol International, brought the suit against Frank Buyanga and three other parties. They claim a 2008 loan was disguised as a share sale because the lender lacked proper licensing, and that fake documents were used to transfer property in 2009.
Cont River Investment argued the May 2023 filing came over a decade past the deadline. The judge sided with the plaintiffs, ruling that fraud voids all related transactions...
The M23 rebel group accused Congo's government on Tuesday of violating a two-week-old ceasefire by attacking civilian areas in the eastern region. Spokesman Laurence Kanyuka said forces from Kinshasa launched strikes at 3 a.m. against towns such as Kibati and Bibwe with heavy weapons and drones.
The rebels said the assault killed women and children while forcing others to flee their homes. M23 warned it would defend itself to protect civilians from what it called the deliberate targeting of populated zones.
Both sides signed a peace deal on Oct. 14 in Doha that established a monitoring mechanism for the truce. Qatar helped broker the agreement as part of efforts to end fighting in a volatile area where M23 says the government...
A small plane carrying 11 people crashed on Tuesday morning in Kenya's Kwale County, killing all aboard. The aircraft was traveling from Diani to Kichwa Tembo airstrip near Masai Mara National Reserve when it went down around 7:30 a.m. in the Tsimba-Matuga area.
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the plane caught fire after impact. Mombasa Air Safari identified 10 passengers as eight Hungarians and two Germans, plus the pilot. Director General Emile Arao said government teams arrived to investigate the cause.
Poor weather slowed rescue operations at the scene. Police secured the area as investigators began examining wreckage scattered across the crash site. The Masai Mara draws thousands of visitors each year as one of...
Elon Musk launched GrokPedia on Monday through his company xAI as an artificial intelligence-powered encyclopedia designed to compete with Wikipedia. The platform debuted with more than 885,000 articles after a brief delay that Musk attributed to removing what he called propaganda from the system.
The site uses the Grok AI model to generate and verify all content rather than allowing public editing like Wikipedia does. Users can only submit corrections through a form for the system to review. GrokPedia draws much of its material from Wikipedia under a Creative Commons license that permits reuse with attribution.
Musk has repeatedly criticized Wikipedia for what he describes as left-wing bias and unfair treatment of conservative...
Speciose Mukabayojo died on Sunday in Nairobi at age 93, the last living daughter of former Rwandan monarch Yuhi Musinga. Her relative, Albert Rudatsimburwa, said she had resided in Kenya since fleeing the country after the 1959 Revolution, which targeted Tutsis.
Belgian colonial authorities forced Musinga from power on October 14, 1931, ending his 36-year rule. The deposed king left with his family for exile in what later became the Democratic Republic of Congo. His daughters returned to Rwanda after Rudahigwa took the throne.
Mukabayojo married Bideri in Nyanza and raised six children before settling permanently in Kenya. She last visited Rwanda to attend the funeral services for her brother, King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, who was...
