For Mugabe's children, life gets tougher and tougher
 28.02.2010 2:45  26 views  0 comments
In a shanty in north Harare, a 12-year-old girl with thin, malnourished arms uses a hoe far too heavy for her to scrabble in the dried sewage, refuse and rock. Her name is Grace and, beneath the surface of this filthy townscape, she is looking for broken bones. She and her father will collect all they can find, and sell them for pennies to the local sugar refinery. Grace is not dodging school; she is trying to get there. Like 80 per cent of Zimbabwe's 4.5 million children, Grace and her 10-year-old sister have left school, turned away because they can't afford the $5 (£3.25) fee. In a country that once boasted the best education in Africa, it has come to this. Grace's father, Joseph, tells...
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Forgotten children: Zimbabwe passes 30
28.02.2010 1:45 28 views 0 comments
In a shanty in north Harare, a 12-year-old girl with thin, malnourished arms uses a hoe far too heavy for her to scrabble in the dried sewage, refuse and rock. Her name is Grace and, beneath the surface of this filthy townscape, she is looking for broken bones. She and her father will collect all they can find, and sell them for pennies to the local sugar refinery. Grace is not dodging school; she is trying to get there. Like 80 per cent of Zimbabwe's 4.5 million children, Grace and her 10-year-old sister have left school, turned away because they can't afford the $5 (£3.25) fee. In a country that once boasted the best education in Africa, it has come to this. Grace's father, Joseph, tells...
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African leaders show there are many countries for old men
28.02.2010 1:35 22 views 0 comments
Robert Mugabe is the eldest statesman on a continent where age is seldom a barrier to power Let them eat cake. That is one of the likely headlines after an all-night birthday gala for , the autocratic president of , which was due to finish in the early hours of yesterday. Mugabe, who last week turned 86 in a country where average life expectancy stands at 45, is the eldest statesman on a continent where age is seldom a barrier to power. But events confronting both Nigerians and Nigeriens in the past week have demonstrated that the next...
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Kallis pats de Villiers
28.02.2010 1:04 28 views 0 comments
Special Correspondent Ahmedabad: South Africa captain Jacques Kallis said the opening partnership between Hashim Amla and Loots Bosman enabled his side to construct a formidable score. "A.B. de Villiers was just brilliant towards the end. I could build another partnership with him. I knew a score of 360 plus would be a...
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Kallis praise for Kohli
28.02.2010 0:42 23 views 0 comments
Ahmedabad: South African captain Jacques Kallis and Man of the Match A.B. de Villiers agreed at a press conference that the opening partnership laid the foundation for the victory. The following are excerpts...
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Mandela asks Clarkson, how was the moon?
28.02.2010 0:04 26 views 0 comments
WHAT do you get when you put together the world's most famous statesman with one of Britain's most popular television stars? A hilarious muddle. Jeremy Clarkson has revealed that when he met Nelson Mandela recently he was mistaken for an astronaut by...
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Robert Mugabe annexes white-owned firms
28.02.2010 0:04 24 views 0 comments
ZIMBABWE'S president, Robert Mugabe, used his lavish 86th birthday celebrations in Bulawayo yesterday to announce a new crackdown on white-owned businesses. The Chinese embassy...
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Militias Turn Into Criminal Gangs
27.02.2010 23:27 29 views 0 comments
Militias which perpetrated...
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What Fish May Do for Western Sahara
27.02.2010 23:27 29 views 0 comments
Legal advice stating that...
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Beer Wars Loom
27.02.2010 23:27 30 views 0 comments
A fierce battle for the Tanzanian beer market looms...
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Farming - Unpredictable Weather Patterns Hurting
27.02.2010 23:27 23 views 0 comments
"Farming has...
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Land Mine Blast Kills 4 Soldiers, Wounds 5 Others
27.02.2010 23:27 25 views 0 comments
At least four government soldiers have...
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First Steps Towards the Restoration of Democracy?
27.02.2010 23:27 27 views 0 comments
As its promised transition to democratic...
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Gunners battle through adversity
27.02.2010 23:09 27 views 0 comments
February 27, 2010 "On a mathematical point of view, it was a good day. But it is hard to enjoy the win." That was an understatement for Arsene Wenger. Victories that could prove so significant rarely seem so meaningless. GettyImages Ryan Shawcross leaves the scene. • • • The simple facts are that, on a ground where Arsenal have suffered damaging defeats on each of their two previous visits, they came from a goal behind to secure victory and halve the gap on Chelsea at the top of the table. Nothing in that, however, provided the abiding image. That came after 66 minutes when Ryan Shawcross lunged at Aaron Ramsey, entering into a tackle that saw the Stoke...
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Egypt adopts organ transplant bill to curb trafficking
27.02.2010 22:22 21 views 0 comments
CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt's parliament voted by an overwhelming majority on Saturday to regulate organ transplants in a bid to curb illegal trafficking and tourism over the issue. The law bans commercial trade in organs as well as transplants between Egyptians and foreigners,...
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Tanker Drivers Exempted from Monthly Sanitation Exercise
27.02.2010 21:51 26 views 0 comments
The Lagos State Government has...
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Police Zero in on Cross-Border Robbers
27.02.2010 21:51 30 views 0 comments
A notorious trans-border robbery kingpin,...
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Zanu PF Attempts to Block Millions of Exiles from Voting
27.02.2010 21:51 25 views 0 comments
Millions of...
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Know why your baby is wailing
27.02.2010 21:13 26 views 0 comments
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Clinton tells Barak to lift blockade
27.02.2010 21:13 27 views 0 comments
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