Harare, Zimbabwe – For days now, Lolo Zuma, a 37-year-old mother of three, has pondered and agonised over how she will provide for her three school-going children. “If Zimbabwe African National National Union-Patriotic Front wins, I will become a sex worker to earn a living for my three children,” Zuma told Al Jazeera as vote tabulation in the general elections …
Unlike their Western counterparts, African leaders are being cautious in characterising the conflict in Ukraine as a war. In East Africa, Uganda laid out the red carpet to Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, who was on a four-nation tour to win the continent’s support over to Moscow’s war on Ukraine. The Herald, a state-run daily, takes its cue from Moscow’s …