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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Twin bombings near the Afghan Defense Ministry killed at least 24 people on Monday, including two security force generals, in an attack claimed by the Taliban....
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Hermine twisted hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, creating large waves in some southern New England beach waters that lured in surfers despite the rough surf and rip currents that kept most beachgoers away on the last day of the holiday weekend....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Setting the stage on Labor Day for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign, Donald Trump softened his stance on immigration while Hillary Clinton blasted Russia for its suspected tampering in the U.S. electoral process....
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- President Barack Obama called off a planned meeting Tuesday with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, seeking distance from a U.S. ally's leader during a diplomatic tour that's put Obama in close quarters with a cast of contentious world figures....
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Their planes parked on the same tarmac, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton made competing Labor Day pitches in Ohio on Monday, setting the stage for a critical month in their testy presidential campaign....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Near-simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic State group struck in and around strongholds of the Syrian government and Kurdish troops Monday, killing at least 48 people in a wave of attacks that came a day after the militants lost a vital link to the outside world along the Syrian-Turkish border....
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Hermine twisted hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday, creating large waves in some southern New England beach waters that lured in surfers despite the rough surf and rip currents that kept most beachgoers away on the last day of the holiday weekend....
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) -- President Barack Obama threatened Monday to call off a planned meeting with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, seeking distance from a U.S. ally's leader during a diplomatic tour that's put Obama in close quarters with a cast of contentious world figures....
The fall-out from Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crisis will be felt for many years to come. Zimbabweans now talk of a lost generation that has missed out on what Zimbabwe once was: A thriving democracy and an African economic powerhouse full of promise.The Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Fr. Frederick Chiromba recently spoke with Vatican Radio’s Africa Service on a broad range of issues that affect Zimbabwe. “When you come into Zimbabwe today and visit rural areas and shopping centres, one gets the impression that the whole country is in retirement because you have young people loafing around, doing nothing all day; middle-aged men and senior citizens sitting together doing basically nothing that is productive. So really, yes there is that kind of suffering. Traditionally people would find a job; they would earn some money to support themselves, but as it is now, many men are unemployed and so too (are) ...
The fall-out from Zimbabwe’s decades-long political and economic crisis will be felt for many years to come. Zimbabweans now talk of a lost generation that has missed out on what Zimbabwe once was: A thriving democracy and an African economic powerhouse full of promise.
The Secretary-General of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Fr. Frederick Chiromba recently spoke with Vatican Radio’s Africa Service on a broad range of issues that affect Zimbabwe.
“When you come into Zimbabwe today and visit rural areas and shopping centres, one gets the impression that the whole country is in retirement because you have young people loafing around, doing nothing all day; middle-aged men and senior citizens sitting together doing basically nothing that is productive. So really, yes there is that kind of suffering. Traditionally people would find a job; they would earn some money to support themselves, but as it is now, many men are unemployed and so too (are) the women. So you find people just sitting in their homes but at the same time, they have families to support and people (Zimbabweans) are now talking about a lost generation of youth who could not go to school and are not even working. That culture of working has been destroyed,” Fr. Chiromba said.
In the recent past, Zimbabwe has seen weeks of anti-government protests. Police have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters fatigued by an economy in endless free-fall, high levels of unemployment and corruption. Police remain heavily deployed in and around the main cities of Harare and Bulawayo.
Many of President Robert Mugabe’s allies have either jumped ship and formed political parties of their own or have become victims of a power struggle that has hounded them out their government or political party jobs. President Mugabe himself, in power for 36 years, seems unfazed by the departures, but there is talk in Zimbabwe of the ‘glue that kept Mugabe in power for so long beginning to come unstuck.’
Mugabe’s successor, whoever he or she will be and whenever will have the enormous task of dealing with years of knock-on effects from decisions and policies that profoundly affect Zimbabwe and its people.
(Fr. Paul Samasumo. Vatican Radio)
Email: engafrica@vatiradio.va
Listen below to Fr. Paul Samasumo as he talks with Fr. Federick Chiromba.
