Botswana fence rips families apart
The fence at Maitengwe is barely high enough to keep foraging livestock from crossing to either side of the border in the dry region, and villagers leisurely leap over the rusty fence to buy basics, mourn their relatives, marry and make merry just as the Tswana did before Zimbabwe’s independence in the 1980. The area has well pronounced footpaths that lead to numerous crossing points, and animals grazing in the area have trampled on the fence in search of water upstream in the heavily siltated Maitengwe river, which meanders across the border.
Togo circus revolts Africa
Togo circus revolts Africa From Tawanda Kanhema in Harare Political developments in Togo, where the army trashed the country’s constitution and installed a new head of state while the late President Gnassingbe Eyadema lay in his shroud, are a major drawback to Africa’s efforts to clean up its image as a continent of chronic coups d’etat and military dictatorships. Eyadema [...]
UN needs to be bolder on Darfur crisis
By Tawanda Kanhema in Harare In what counts as the boldest move since the outbreak of hostilities in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the United Nations recently denounced the Sudanese government for what it described as “serious crimes against humanity” while guardedly sweeping the bulging genocide under a threadbare carpet of arguments that the Khartoum government had no elaborate [...]