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Kirsty Coventry and whiteness in Zimbabwe: how sport can rewrite the political rules

Kirsty Coventry’s story is one of apparent contradictions. She’s a white woman celebrated as a national hero in a Black-majority Zimbabwe and an Olympic swimmer turned politician. She’s also now one of the most powerful figures in global sports as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

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Why is Zimbabwe’s President Mnangagwa facing pressure to resign?

An internal split in the ruling ZANU-PF party is driving fears of a possible coup attempt.

Al Jazeera

View from Africa: how Kirsty Coventry will handle sport’s biggest job at the IOC

Incoming IOC president owes her position to political support but is promising a collective and sustainable leadership approach

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So who is Kirsty Coventry, who now has global sport’s most powerful job?

IOC’s first female president faces significant challenges including handling Donald Trump’s power and protecting women’s sports

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Sam Nujoma obituary

Namibia’s first president and ‘founding father’ who led the fight for independence from the apartheid regime in South Africa

The Guardian - UK

Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s ‘founding father’ and first president, dies aged 95

Nujoma was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990.

Al Jazeera

Longest-lived US president was always happy to speak his mind

Serving as 39th US president from 1977 to 1981, Jimmy Carter sought to make government ‘competent and compassionate’.

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Zimbabwe launches new land policy to empower Black farmers with direct farm ownership

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a new policy that will allow beneficiaries of land taken from white people under controversial land reforms to sell it and to be able to borrow from banks using it as collateral

The Independent UK

Death penalty: how Zimbabwe reached the point of abolition – podcast

Zimbabwe is on the cusp of abolishing the death penalty after its Death Penalty Abolition Bill was approved by the Senate on December 12. The bill is now sitting on the desk of Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, a known opponent of the death penalty, waiting for his assent. Once it…

The Conversation

US and UK sanction gold smuggler Kamlesh Pattni

Pattni featured heavily in Al Jazeera’s Gold Mafia investigation, which looked at gold smuggling in Southern Africa.

Al Jazeera

Dozens died when a boat capsized in eastern Congo

In tonight's edition, At least 78 people died when an overcrowded boat capsized on Lake Kivu in eastern Congo on Thursday. Also, Kinshasa will begin a vaccination campaign on Saturday, three days later than planned. And The Zimbabwean government will this month pay an initial $20 million to foreign white…

France 24

How to Survive a Dictator: North Korea review – can ‘28 years in hell’ really be a laughing matter?

Munya Chawawa pits his trademark raps and skits against interviews with a man denounced as ‘human scum’ – and a defector who ended up in a detention centre for decades. What emerges, against the odds, is witty and very well done

The Guardian - UK

Munya Chawawa: ‘The end of the world is hurtling towards us like a truck!’

The ‘fastest man on the internet’ has a new show about North Korea. He talks brainwashing, how we’re all suffering from apocalypse anxiety – and why the west is the real ‘big bad wolf’

The Guardian - UK

Megalopolis to Industry: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Francis Ford Coppola’s grandiose, dystopian sci-fi is finally unleashed, and the young City bankers go green with Lord Muck

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African countries are adopting two houses of parliament to boost democracy – but that’s not always what happens

At independence, most African states had two legislative chambers – a lower and upper chamber – in their parliament. African leaders saw that as a colonial legacy and as inefficient, so most states removed the upper chambers. Before 1990, only two states kept these bicameral parliaments: Liberia and Nigeria.

Al Jazeera

‘SADC should speak out’: Zimbabwe activists face crackdown ahead of summit

Police flood Harare’s streets in anticipation of protests on the eve of Southern African Development Community meeting.

Al Jazeera

Will survivors of Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi massacre finally get justice?

President Mnangagwa launched initiative to foster healing over 1980s killings, but survivor communities are sceptical.

Al Jazeera

What’s behind the latest US sanctions on Zimbabwe President Mnangagwa?

Have sanctions ever achieved much in Zimbabwe, and how do they affect the country’s economy?

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Al Jazeera

Are US-South Africa ties at breaking point over Israel’s war on Gaza?

A US bill is calling to reassess US-South Africa relations, pointing to tensions amid the ICJ case against Israel.

International Business Times

US Hits Zimbabwe Leadership In Sanctions Revamp

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior leaders, replacing a broad two-decade-old pressure campaign with targeted action.

Al Jazeera

‘Life is hell’: Zimbabwe flood survivors lament loss of land, livelihoods

Survivors say the government is yet to offer full compensation for the flooding that happened almost 10 years ago.

The Guardian - AU

By banning Khawaja’s protest the ICC has boosted his message and revealed its own hypocrisy

The International Cricket Council doesn’t appear to mind personal beliefs, just not when they are applied too specifically and become political

International Business Times

Zimbabwe Ruling Party Eyes Supermajority In Votes Without Opponents

Zimbabwe will hold nine by-elections on Saturday with opposition candidates largely absent as President Emmerson Mnangagwa cements his control over the mineral-rich nation.

Al Jazeera

‘Prosecution by persecution’: The Zimbabwean politician imprisoned 65 times

Human rights groups say Zimbabwean authorities are ‘weaponising the law to target opposition figures’ like Sikhala.

The Independent UK

Zimbabwe's opposition boycotts president's 1st State of the Nation speech since disputed election

Zimbabwe’s main opposition party has boycotted President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s first State of the Nation Address since disputed elections in August

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