Fri, 12 Jun, 2020
Hillary Netsiyanwa’s deep, Dublin brogue sweeps confidently over the backing guitar, the naked love for his home town stitched into every line of the poem he has spent months perfecting before releasing it out into the unending warren that is Spotify.
Fri, 24 Jan, 2020
Though Robert Mugabe’s successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, described his mentor, who has died aged 95 in Singapore, as “an icon of liberation” Mugabe was an African freedom fighter turned kleptocratic despot straight from central casting — maybe central casting at London’s Ealing Studios where tales of empire were gilded and offered as history rather than entertainment.
Sat, 07 Sep, 2019
One of the star speakers at yesterday’s anti-Trump demonstrations in London was the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, who — faithful to his 30-year career as a protestor — declined an invitation to attend the Buckingham Palace banquet normally held for state visits.
Wed, 05 Jun, 2019
Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has given his first interview since being forced from power in November, describing his removal as a "coup" and a "disgrace".
Thu, 15 Mar, 2018
Conventional wisdom, that imperfect, inconsistent gauge of our thoughts, suggests voters can be divided into three categories: Those who vote for Sinn Féin, those who might, and those who, no matter what, would never vote for the party.
Mon, 22 Jan, 2018
A Zimbabwean court has freed "for now" an American woman charged with subversion for allegedly describing former president Robert Mugabe on Twitter as a "sick man".
Thu, 04 Jan, 2018
A white Zimbabwean farmer evicted under the government of Robert Mugabe has returned to a hero's welcome as the first to get his land back under new President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Fri, 22 Dec, 2017
Zimbabwe's new leader has called for the "unconditional lifting" of sanctions that he says have crippled the once-prosperous country's development.
Thu, 14 Dec, 2017
Zimbabwe's former finance minister has testified that armed, masked men in uniform abducted him from his home during the military operation leading to the ousting of Robert Mugabe and held him for a week in an unidentified location.
Sat, 25 Nov, 2017
Contrasting ways of accepting the past were seen this week when two mass murderers, suffered very different fates.
Fri, 24 Nov, 2017
Zimbabwe's ruling party promised Robert Mugabe that he would not be prosecuted if he resigned, a party official said.
Thu, 23 Nov, 2017
Questions remain over the future of Robert Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years, and his wife who just days ago was poised to succeed him.
While intensive and daily negotiations about peace were going on, the IRA planned and executed a terrible atrocity. Adams honoured the bomber, writes Fergus Finlay
Tue, 21 Nov, 2017
Zimbabwe's ruling party has ordered impeachment proceedings to begin against President Robert Mugabe and expressed confidence he could be voted out within two days.
Mon, 20 Nov, 2017
Mr Mugabe ignored a midday deadline by the party's central committee to resign.
In a film about John Hume’s pivotal role in ending terrorism on this island, launched last week, Bill Clinton describes Hume as “Northern Ireland’s Martin Luther King”.
But, the changing of the guard is coming and Mary Lou McDonald is the clear favourite to take over the role as Sinn Féin leader.
Sun, 19 Nov, 2017
Thousands of people are marching in Zimbabwe's capital Harare to demand the removal of Robert Mugabe from power after nearly four decades.
Sat, 18 Nov, 2017
Opponents of Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe are preparing to demonstrate for the ousting of the 93-year-old leader who is virtually powerless and deserted by most of his allies.
SPEAKING before his death almost exactly 11 years ago, Ian Smith, prime minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979 and a controversial figure by any standards, said that he would happily walk down any street in Harare — Salisbury in his time — but that his successor Robert Mugabe dare not.
Fri, 17 Nov, 2017
Here's your morning news bulletin...
After widespread shock and condemnation, the head of the World Health Organisation is "rethinking" his appointment of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe as a "goodwill ambassador."
Sat, 21 Oct, 2017
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has long faced United States sanctions over his government's human rights abuses.
Fri, 20 Oct, 2017
The wife of Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe has returned home from South Africa.
Sun, 20 Aug, 2017
Update 7.09pm: Lawyers for the young model who claims Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe assaulted her in a Johannesburg hotel have said that her family has been approached with an offer of money to drop the allegation.
Thu, 17 Aug, 2017
Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has requested diplomatic immunity over an allegation that she assaulted a young model in Johannesburg earlier this week, South African police said.
Wed, 16 Aug, 2017
The wife of Zimbabwe's president has been accused of assaulting a young woman at a hotel in South Africa.
Tue, 15 Aug, 2017
Less than 10 years ago, South Africa looked on the cusp of a glorious period. Instead it is in danger of throwing it all away through misstep after misstep, writess Kyran Fitzgerald.
Mon, 06 Mar, 2017
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has celebrated his 93rd birthday surrounded by thousands of supporters in a defiant show of strength after nearly four decades in power.
Sat, 25 Feb, 2017
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, who turns 93 in February, has been endorsed as the ruling party's candidate in a national election scheduled for 2018.
Sat, 17 Dec, 2016
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has appealed for calm as his government battles to contain a debilitating economic crisis.
Tue, 06 Dec, 2016
Thousands of South Africans have called for the resignation of president Jacob Zuma in a series of demonstrations.
Wed, 02 Nov, 2016
Thu, 22 Sep, 2016
Zimbabwe's 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe arrived home today after an overseas absence that led to rumours about a health crisis, joking to reporters: "Yes, I was dead".
Sat, 03 Sep, 2016
It is a pack of lies to say the current Coalition inherited “a wreck”. And it’s not convincing people, writes Victoria White.
Thu, 18 Feb, 2016
Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe arrived home from a weeks-long holiday looking sprightly, quashing rumours that he had a heart attack.
Sat, 23 Jan, 2016
Sun, 01 Nov, 2015
Zimbabwean officials have dismissed speculation about president Robert Mugabe’s health after the elderly leader stumbled in public.
Sat, 31 Oct, 2015
Vice-captain Kevin O’Brien has been named in the Ireland squad to tour Zimbabwe and Namibia in October.
Thu, 17 Sep, 2015
As the tyrant totters towards decrepitude, his country slides into famine. By Graham Boynton
Sat, 08 Aug, 2015
ITALIAN police yesterday arrested three Libyans and two Algerians accused of human trafficking and multiple homicide in connection with the presumed death by drowning of more than 200 migrants after a ship capsized in the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
Zimbabweans will start exchanging ‘quadrillions’ of local dollars for a few US dollars next week, as president Robert Mugabe’s government discards its virtually worthless national currency, the central bank said.
Sat, 13 Jun, 2015
German chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday paid tribute to Soviet soldiers killed in WWII as she called for co-operation with Russia amid tensions over Ukraine.
Mon, 11 May, 2015
Cricket Ireland has condemned the “contemptuous” mocking of World Cup star John Mooney in a Zimbabwean newspaper.
Wed, 11 Mar, 2015
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe marked his 91st birthday by speaking for more than an hour on his feet, delivering a defiant speech in which he threatened to take over land and animal sanctuaries still in the hands of whites.
Mon, 02 Mar, 2015
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has marked his 91st birthday by delivering a characteristically defiant speech in which he threatened to take over land and animal sanctuaries still in the hands of white people.
Sat, 28 Feb, 2015
As Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe prepares for an “obscene” $1m birthday party, the European Union made it clear they would not be bringing any gifts to his table.
Sat, 21 Feb, 2015
African leaders have appointed Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as the new chairman of the 54-nation African Union.
Fri, 30 Jan, 2015
The Irish government lavished Zimbabwean premier Robert Mugabe with gifts during his visit to Dublin in 1983, newly declassified files reveal.
Mon, 29 Dec, 2014
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