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Harare – Long queues outside ATMs. Security guards confirming that those machines that are already empty “won’t be stocked until Monday.” A banking official speaking privately of “truckloads” of bond notes on the move before the weekend. Zimbabweans are in panic mode following Saturday’s.... |
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19-12-2016 16:18 | Daniela Lazarová Prague’s Supreme Court has overruled the verdict in the David Rath corruption case on the grounds that the wiretapping used as key evidence in the case was illegal. The judge ruled that the court order licensing the wiretapping was not adequately justified. |
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By Thom Chiumia. I am not a fan of Leader of Opposition and President of the Malawi Congress Pary (MCP), Dr. Lazarus Chakwera, neither am I President Peter Mutharika's admirer. I am just a mere Malawian scribe trying to do what is right and best for my compatriots. |
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NEW YORK—The art of music in Kelly Hall-Tompkins’s hands is everything it is meant to be—communication between humans, highly creative, and an exploration of our emotional depths. When she plays, you want to truly listen. “Music is the greatest of all the arts, I think,” said Hall-Tompkins, an acclaimed violin soloist and chamber musician. |
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‘I went along with religion for many years not believing it, because after all a lot of it is not believable, but as I went on in life I began to trust it more,’ Lionel Blue told an interviewer. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian.
For more than 30 years Rabbi Lionel Blue, who has died aged 86,.... |
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The umbrella body for Genocide survivors' associations (Ibuka) has condemned the recent decision to grant an early release of two convicted masterminds of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The two Ferdinand Nahimana and Emmanuel Rukundo were serving their respective prison sentences before the.... |
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President Miloš Zeman has vetoed a conflict of interests bill designed to rein in potential conflicts of interests among public officials. The bill would ban ministers from media ownership and would bar companies where ministers have more than a 25-percent stake from receiving state subsidies,.... |
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If the idea of anything other than a white Christmas seems strange, spend Christmas in the islands -- they love it there, decorating lavishly, yet tropically, playing their own Christmas carols, more than we have by a mile, all with an exuberant, hopped-up Afro-Caribbean beat, a music known as soca parang. |
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And yet, I learned – mostly from my three brothers – that people look after one another. We help each other. Even if we don’t have much, even if we wear hand-me-downs to school and dig up raw potatoes for dinner, we still help each other. It’s when life is tough and your back is to the wall that we matter the most to each other. |
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19-12-2016 11:51 | Daniela Lazarová President Milos Zeman has invited Pope Francis to visit the Czech Republic. In a congratulatory telegram on the occasion of the Pope’s 80th birthday, Mr. Zeman spoke highly of the head of the Catholic Church, saying that while the Czech Republic was regarded as an.... |
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Jomo Kenyatta was a sum of many parts. A charismatic man with a booming voice, piercing eyes and a larger than life presence, he bestrode the country like a colossus. Amongst the secrets he took to the grave was that of his religious beliefs. On that score, he sailed close to the wind while.... |
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