Zimbabwe gets $950m loan from China
03 Jul 2009: Zimbabwe is to receive a $950m loan from China to aid its devastated economy. Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, called the loan an "overhwelming success" and said it was the largest secured by the new government formed in February. The moneyUS dollar eases Zimbabwe inflation
04 Apr 2009: Zimbabweans have seen a slight fall in the price of everyday items since the government allowed shops to abandon the local currency in favour of the US dollar, government figures indicated. The data showed consumer prices fell in the first two months ofTsvangirai’s wife killed by lorry on British aid run
08 Mar 2009: THE mysterious road accident that killed the wife of Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe’s prime minister, leaving him injured and emotionally devastated, was caused by an aid lorry on a mission funded by Britain’s international development department. TheUS extends sanctions against Zimbabwe
05 Mar 2009: U.S. President Barack Obama has extended sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying the troubled African nation had not resolved its political crisis. Obama's announcement came on Wednesday after Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai had called for an end2009 Budget should be the starting point
16 Feb 2009: The Affirmative Action Group-AAG says the 2009 budget presented by the Acting Finance Minister, Cde Patrick Chinamasa, should set the tone for the government to start looking into ways of promoting importation of raw materials and the resuscitation ofPresident Mugabe calls for cohesion and mutual trust in new govt
16 Feb 2009: President Robert Mugabe has urged the newly sworn-in Cabinet ministers to be good and upright leaders committed to serving the people of Zimbabwe. Addressing the newly sworn-in Cabinet ministers and senior members of the inclusive government at a luncheonMorgan Tsvangirai sworn in as Zimbabwe prime minister
12 Feb 2009: Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), has been sworn in as Zimbabwe's prime minister more than four months after signing a power-sharing deal. Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president and Tsvangirai's long-time politicalZimbabwe talks breakthrough
27 Jan 2009: Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwe's opposition party, MDC, will be sworn in by February 11, regional leaders say. The Southern African Development Community, meeting in the South African capital Pretoria, also agreed on the distribution ofAre the Tables Turning?
03 Jan 2009: Harare — "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness; and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." - Mark Twain, the American author and humorist, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. So it has happened - America'sZimbabwe rivals agree cabinet jobs
15 Sep 2008: Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is to get more cabinet posts than Robert Mugabe's governing Zanu-PF in the long-sought unity government, the country's state-run radio has reported. The cabinet will have 16 members from MorganMugabe May Not, After All, Be Insane!
05 Jul 2008: The recent avalanche of insults and negative publicity directed towards Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe cannot leave any keen African observer indifferent. The idea is not to exonerate him from any wrongdoing per se. This is so because he is guilty of some, butslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
