en-zw-hotdailynews: 2015-08-29

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Health

Desmond Tutu, archbishop of the world
Mail & Guardian Online
The priest is a humble man who boldly took on the apartheid state and still fights for justice, writes Tinyiko Maluleke. It would be wrong to portray Tutu as a self-made action hero. The truth is that Tutu is a product of a heroic and resilient people ...
No grapes from Tutu grandchild   Times LIVE
Daniel Craig recalls the time Desmond Tutu made him speechless   Channel 24
REFILE-S.Africa's Tutu expected home from hospital next week   Reuters
AllAfrica.com
Reuters Canada
Bulawayo24 News (press release) (blog)
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Fox News

'Unicorn woman' appeals for help as rare condition causes horn-like growth
Fox News
An elderly villager has become known as the "unicorn woman" after an abnormal growth on her head appeared to take the shape of a single large horn. (CEN). A woman with an abnormal growth on her head that appears to be in the shape of a large horn has ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Science

Science Recorder

If life is spreading across the universe, we can track it
Science Recorder
Panspermia (from Greek πᾶν (pan), meaning "all", and σπέρμα (sperma), meaning "seed") is the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids and, also, by spacecraft in the form of ...
Aliens could have started life on earth?   KRWG News22
Life In The Galaxy Explained By One Venereal Word: Panspermia   Design & Trend
Panspermia: the epidemic theory about life in the galaxy   Pulse Headlines
Nature World Report
News Every day
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The Guardian Nigeria

UNDP Launches Climate Change Story Telling Contest For Journos
RadioVop
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched a global storytelling contest, Voices2Paris to contribute to raising public awareness on the negative impacts of climate change as well as on the opportunities and solutions seen in actions by ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Sports

NewsDay

Will Mafu sink or swim
NewsDay
Highlanders coach Bongani Mafu faces a tough task of saving his job when his team takes on table-toppers Chicken Inn in a must win Castle Lager Premier Soccer League derby at Barbourfields Stadium tomorrow. BY FORTUNE MBELE. After losing two ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Entertainment

Independent Online

Babyface talks to Tonight
Independent Online
Starting in Zimbabwe tonight, the highly-anticipated Toni Braxton and Babyface Tour is finally on African soil. Organised by Canoc Productions, the r&b greats will perform in Durban on Sunday, Cape Town on Tuesday, Joburg on Thursday and it's just been ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Technology

The Zimbabwe Daily

30 000 vehicles face de-registration
The Zimbabwe Daily
More than 30 000 vehicles face de-registration after the Central Vehicle Registry yesterday published a notice giving them a one-month ultimatum to regularise as the Government moves to ensure that only properly documented cars use the roads. In a ...

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The Straits Times

New Jaguar and Land Rover tested
The Straits Times
The XE is Jaguar's second attempt at persuading BMW 3-series and Mercedes-Benz C- class buyers to reconsider switching over. Will the Tata-owned British marque succeed this time? Read the cover story of next month's Torque to draw your own ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Business

New Zimbabwe.com

Low water level cuts Kariba power 30pct
New Zimbabwe.com
THE country's main electricity plant, Kariba Hydro, has had its output capped at 475 megawatts, down from recent winter peak of 705MW due to lower dam water levels, the state power utility has announced. Scaling down of generation at the world's ...
Crippling power shortage looms   NewsDay
Water rationing limits Kariba power generation   Nehanda Radio
Zambezi authority seeks gate, spillway investigations at Kariba Dam hydro complex   HydroWorld
Reuters Africa
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New Zimbabwe.com

Zimbabwe wont starve, VP Mphoko claims
New Zimbabwe.com
ZIMBABWEANS won't die of hunger, vice president Phelekezela Mphoko has been quoted as saying. This is despite reports this week that at least 1.5 million people were at risk of going hungry after a drop in maize production. Mphoko said the country's ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe World

Reuters

Children among 71 migrants found dead in truck in Austria
Reuters
EISENSTADT, Austria Four children, including a baby girl, were among 71 migrants found dead in a truck on an Austrian highway and several people have been arrested in Hungary in connection with the tragedy, Austrian police said on Friday. An Austrian ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Africa

Wink News

Kenyan gets 15 years in prison in US for funding Islamist militant groups
Ynetnews
A Kenyan man was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday by a judge in Miami after pleading guilty to funneling $11,600 dollars to U.S.-designated terrorist organizations in Africa and the Middle East. U.S. District Judge Ursula Ungaro sentenced ...
Kenyan sentenced to 15 years in prison in US terror case   STLtoday.com

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International Business Times

ISIS In Africa: Islamic State Recruits 2 Ghana Students, Targets African ...
International Business Times
The Islamic State group has recruited at least two college students from Ghana, where several universities have been targeted as potential recruiting grounds. Pictured: Iraqi Kurdish fighters keep position in an area between the districts of Daquq and ...
Ghanaian security boss allays fears over ISIS recruits   GlobalPost
ISIS takes recruitment drive to Ghanaian universities   TheCable
In Ghana, Student's Radicalization Prompts Fears ISIS Is …   Foreign Policy (blog)
Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
BBC News
GhanaWeb
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BBC News

Letter from Africa: Does Nigeria run better without a cabinet?
BBC News
In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali looks at how Nigeria is coping without a cabinet. It is now three months since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president of Nigeria and five months since he won historic elections, the ...
Abaribe Decries President's Alleged Lopsided Appointments   The Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog)
Buhari defends appointment of SGF, others   The Nation Newspaper
Presidency Promises Balance In Future Appointments   Leadership Newspapers
PPP Focus.com
Rapid News Network
Premium Times
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The Guardian Nigeria

Senate probes unwholesome practices in power sector
BusinessDay
As the dust raised over Senate's probe of the EFCC, Nigeria Customs Service and FIRS is yet to settle, the upper chamber is set for yet again another probe. To this end, the Senate has inaugurated a committee to conduct extensive investigation into ...

2015-08-29 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe

VOA Zimbabwe

Critics Say First Lady Grace Mugabe Too Divisive, Needs to Stop Attacking Mujuru
VOA Zimbabwe
Some political commentators have described as reckless and divisive remarks by First Lady Grace Mugabe that no-one can stop her in the ruling party, currently riddled with factionalism. Mrs. Mugabe made the remarks on Thursday at Morumbedzi Growth ...

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