Charles Muganiwa Features Writer
THEY had been listening to birds singing melodies, weird sounds of the forest for three or so hours and baboons could be heard screaming in the valley before them. Suddenly they were on the edge of

Smriti Mallapaty
In a poem about an earthquake that killed thousands of people in Nepal and India in 1934, Nepali folk poet Lok Nath Pokharel described the conspicuous and widespread death of snakes, despite the earthquake occurring in the winter when snakes usually hibernate.

Isdore Guvamombe Features Editor
THE starting gun will not be fired for the next seven months, but the buzz on television, newspapers and radio programmes; the music galas, roadshows and infrastructure touch-ups, all indicate that

BEIJING. - Award-winning author Zhou Daxin was absent from a late August Press conference for his new book, a half-biographical, half-fictional account of the memories he has of his deceased son.

Fortious Nhambura Senior Features writer

MINOT KATENAIRE of Gorejena Village in Mt Darwin braves the light rains as he inspects his tobacco crop. It his first year in tobacco farming and the experiment seems to be bearing fruit. He has just

NTSOHIHY. — Daughters as young as 12 in the villages surrounding Antsohihy, the capital of Sofia Region, in Madagascar’s remote, traditional north, often suffer the harmful consequences of falling

BAGANGA. — Survivors of Typhoon Bopha, which struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on December 4, face a bleak Christmas more than two weeks on. “My parents and my one-year-old

Roselyne Sachiti Deputy Features Editor

THEY came from different backgrounds, sat, spoke, sang and raised issues that affect them. The young women ate together, laughed at each other’s jokes, yet they were still hungry for more.

Kingsley Ighobor
YOUNG men and women chat along the glittering corridors of the sprawling shopping complex.
With state-of-the-art mobile communication gadgets in hand, they go in and out of the mall’s 65

Samuel D. Pascoal
We live in an era of technology. Technology has tried to put an end to the arduous agrarian way of life and has heralded an epoch of vast development. Thanks to technology and its predictability, man

Masimba Tafirenyika

Once again Malawi finds itself in a tight spot. A food crisis set off by erratic rains, rising food prices and economic hardships is slowly unfolding. For the first time in several years, the country’s ability to