1 week 2 days 4 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

FRANCE HALTS AFRICAN LEADERS CASE !   The leaders of the three countries had all denied the ...

1 week 2 days 4 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Cathy Buckle's Letter from Zimbabwe ! 10th October, 2009 Dear Family and Friends, Every window and door is open, shoes are abandoned, blankets are back in cupboards and now we wait, every day looking upwards, waiting for the rains to come. It's a blistering hot October and yet shortly after dawn every morning silhouettes appear in ...

1 week 2 days 5 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

KENYA TO LAUNCH HOMOSEXUAL CENSUS !   Homosexuality is punishable by 14 years ...

1 week 2 days 5 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

ANGER AT ZIMBABWE UN ENVOY SNUB !   The UN's torture investigator has made an angry return to South Africa after being refused entry to Zimbabwe. Manfred Nowak was detained by ...

1 week 3 days 3 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

CATHY BUCKLE'S LETTER FROM ZIMBABWE ! Moral compass Saturday 3rd October 2009 Dear Family and Friends, Its hot and purple in Zimbabwe: Jacaranda trees adorned in purple flowers; skies heavy with purple rain clouds, bougainvillea creepers ablaze with carpets of purple blooms and Mulberry trees dripping with sweet, sticky, staining ...

1 week 3 days 3 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

ZIMBABWE BLOCKS UN TORTURE EXPERT !   Manfred Nowak initially said the invitation was a ...

1 week 5 days 5 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

ZIMBABWE POLICE 'RAID MDC OFFICE' !   Morgan Tsvangirai has temporarily pulled out of the ...

5 weeks 6 days 6 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

NESTLE MILK LINK TO GRACE MUGABE !   Grace Mugabe, right, is believed to own about 12,000 ...

6 weeks 5 hours 7 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

CATHY BUCKLE'S WEEKLY LETTER FROM ZIMBABWE ! It's time Saturday 26th September 2009 Dear Family and Friends, I was about 8th in a queue in a supermarket this week and kept looking to the front of the line impatiently to see why things were moving so slowly. I was waiting to buy airtime for a mobile phone and suddenly the reality of what ...

6 weeks 14 hours 39 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

GUINEA-BISSAU 'TO TACKLE DRUGS' !   This is Malam Bacai Sanha's second spell leading ...

6 weeks 15 hours 3 min ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

GADDAFI IN LOCKERBIE FAMILY TALKS !   Col Gaddafi described his meeting with the Lockerbie ...

6 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

ZIMBABWE - LETTER FROM THE DIASPORA ! 25th September 2009 Dear Friends, "Pass a law no whites are allowed to farm," said a white commercial farmer this week, "Then it makes it clear." It's not hard to understand the white farmer's bitterness, anyone with a white skin in Zimbabwe, farmer or not, knows very well ...

6 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

NIGERIAN ANGER OVER CHINA DEATHS !   There are some 20,000 Africans living legally in ...

6 weeks 1 day 14 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

SA ATHLETICS CHIEF TO STAY IN JOB !   Semenya (left) was presented with her world 800m gold medal by Chuene Athletics South Africa chief ...

6 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

UN warns over East Africa hunger The WFP wants more food aid ...

6 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

CAPTAIN KILLED BY SOMALI PIRATES !   ...

6 weeks 2 days 6 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

NORTH NIGERIA POLITICIAN ABDUCTED !   ...

6 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

Theatre seeks to heal Zimbabwe     ...

6 weeks 2 days 9 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

US TRAVEL BAN THREAT FOR KENYANS !   Hundreds died in weeks of violence following the ...

6 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago wrote on the blog Mara Mara

JAMMEH'S DEATH THREAT CONDEMNED !   President Yahya Jammeh came to power in a coup in ...