Our report on Iran, featuring an interview with a teammate of professional footballer Amir Nasr-Azadani, now facing the death penalty as a popular rebellion sweeps through the country... produced by
@SkyGreenfield
To confirm, the Sky News team was traveling to Epworth in Harare to conduct an interview with the head of the National Vendors Union on the morning of 26 January, 2019. At 8:30 am, at the junction of Chiremba Road and Glenara Avenue, we witnessed a man being beaten by...
Tens of thousands gathering tonight in front of Sudan's military headquarters in Khartoum. A massive display of people-power, lit by smart-phone, accompanied by chants for revolution: "the people want to overthrow the regime"...
#SudanProtests
Reports of new air strikes in the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle - happening now - two days after the Ethiopian government said it had bombed 'communications infrastructures' in the city ....
We’ve spoken with President Mnangagwa’s spokesman
@GeorgeCharamba
and he says Nelson Chamisa will win the popular vote... what is absolutely clear is that
@nelsonchamisa
has done far better than the experts predicted...
had his handcuffs removed and ordered to drive. The van pulled away at 9:00 am with uniformed and plain-clothes members of the security forces inside.
We stand by our reporting.
The funeral procession of 52-year old grandmother, Sylvia Matambo (Maphosa) who was shot in the back by a soldier as she left the office of the Water Board in Harare on Wednesday afternoon...
Unconfirmed reports from Zimbabwe that journalist Hopewell Chin'ono is seriously ill in Chikurubi prison. His lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa sent a doctor to prison and is awaiting an assessment. Chin'ono has been detained for over a month after tweeting support for an opposition rally.
Independent election monitors say 21% of polling stations in Zimbabwe election did not post results immediately as required by law - the MDC Alliance accuses the electoral commission/government of ‘cooking the books’...
Zimbabwean opposition leader (and pastor) Nelson Chamisa’s MDC rally has the sort of energy and top tunes that all political rallies should strive for....
@skynews
Sky News, the first to travel south from Tigray's capital Mekelle to villages like Cheli where major battles have been fought. Residents say soldiers murdered villagers & destroyed their homes after accusing them of siding with the enemy - more on
@skynews
Sky News witnesses a vicious roadside beating by members of Zimbabwe’s security forces as they target and assault hundreds of people after protests over massive fuel price hikes...
In other news, the Zimbabwe Republic Police confirmed Sky News' exclusive story that the authorities have arrested and detained children in the aftermath of nationwide fuel protests. A senior assistant commissioner said 36 children had been arrested:
members of the the security forces. We filmed as he was marched down the Chiremba Road in the direction of the CBD (city centre). The victim was put in a taxi van, then hauled out and beaten for an additional 4 minutes. Another man, in a red shirt, was taken out of the van....
Ethiopia conflict: Military sources tell Sky News that government forces are holding up large numbers of refugees and preventing them from fleeing. Our latest report on their treacherous journey:
A 22-yr old student, Tawanda Muchehiwa says he was abducted & tortured by Zimbabwe's security services for 3 days. Civil rights groups say he is one of dozens to suffer but Muchehiwa's case is different in one respect - his abduction was caught on cctv:
Five riot police vehicles parked directly outside the MDC headquarters building in central Harare this morning - which looks and feels like old school intimidation to me...
A
@SkyNews
investigation into the man who fell from the sky. Who was the stowaway found in a tidy garden in south London - and why did he take the risk?| World News | Sky News
Residents in Bulawayo tell Sky News that Zimbabwe police and military conduct nightly beatings on men aged 14 to 40 ... attacks are vicious, indiscriminate and given without reason say residents:
Disturbing release by
@MSF
about an attack on a military convoy on the Mekelle-Adigrat road and execution-style reprisal killings by Ethiopian soldiers on men in mini-buses.
@sky
news travelled this road yesterday (24/03) and saw (1/3)
via
@MSF_EastAfrica
We spent months tracking down the stowaway who hid on a Kenya Airways plane and fell out over Clapham this summer. Kenyan authorities said no one was missing but we think an airport cleaner in Nairobi called Paul Manyasi smuggled himself on board. Check out our Snapchat special:
A big anti-government protest is being held in the Zimbabwean capital Harare today - its the first demo in the city since a violent crackdown killed 6 protestors on 1 August and the police (who approved this event) are on the streets in force....
A 52-year old grandmother, called Sylvia Maphosa (Matambo) went to work at the Zimbabwe Water Authority last Wednesday but did not return home... watch our
@SkyNews
report on one family's loss and the political struggle which surrounds them ...
MDC Alliance leader
@nelsonchamisa
tells
@SkyNews
the mood in Zimbabwe is volatile: "I'm actually trying to hold (the protestors) back, to say please hold your horses. If I were not to do it I can tell you things would happen in a particular other way."
Watch our exclusive report from the torched remains of Shimelba refugee camp in Tigray. More than 30000 camp residents at Shimelba and Hitsats camps were attacked by Eritrean troops in mid- November in what may be the single worst atrocity in this vicious conflict...
For the past five months the head of the Ethiopian government has adamantly denied the presence of Eritrean troops, together with their military hardware, in the northern region of Tigray.
@sparkomat
is one of the first journalists to cover the story 👇
After backing Mnangagwa as the man to reform Zimbabwe, the UK retakes the consensus line in the west after 12 months of political and state sanctioned violence ....
JUST IN: At a hearing of the UK’s International Development Committee, foreign secretary Harriet Baldwin says after the recent violent army crackdown, “it will be difficult for us” to back Zimbabwe’s debt arrears clearance plan, or to support its Commonwealth readmission
STORY UPDATE: Around this time last year, we ran a series about a Zimbabwean student called Tawanda Muchehiwa. He was doing a media studies course in Bulawayo when, without warning, he was abducted by a shadowy police unit called the ‘Ferret’. Tawanda almost lost his life....
Disturbing news in Zimbabwe with police effectively imprisoning head of doctors' association Dr Peter Magombeyi, inside the clinic where he sought medical attention after his alleged abduction last week. Today, the High Court ruled he could leave for treatment in South Africa...
Dozens of children have been rounded up, arrested and detained by Zimbabwean soldiers and police and lawyers tell Sky News the courts have been ordered to convict:
Heading home after a month covering the war in Ukraine. We leave the east on the brink of an all-out assault and will worry for the extraordinary people we’ve met. Their strength has moved us deeply, as has their suffering….
Ethiopia's PM Abiy Ahmed has declared victory in Tigray but humanitarian agencies still can't get access to those in desperate need. "It's time for concrete action," says an increasingly exasperated
@FilippoGrandi
from the UNHCR:
Extra-judicial killing, rape, abduction, gunshot assaults ... a horrifying list of state-perpetrated crimes in Zimbabwe, collated by the Human Rights NGO Forum over the past 3 weeks...
At least 37 Zimbabweans died in the UK during the pandemic - the 'vast majority health and social care workers' according officials - it means some 10% of all front line staff in UK who died have come from one, relatively small African country. Our report:
A sign of Russia's intent. This is Freedom Square in central Kharkiv - we stood on that spot one week ago, listing to musicians sing patriotic songs in the blue 'Freedom tent' to the left. People told us they couldn't believe the Russians would invade...
The Zimbabwean government says it's "unthinkable it would be involved," in the abduction of the head of the doctors' association, Peter Magombeyi. Problem is, abductions of union leaders have become commonplace. Just ask Obet Masaraure (now in jail)
An aerial view of Zimbabwe's largest opposition party, the MDC Alliance's final election rally in Harare today ... a sea of red in 'Freedom Square' to hear Nelson Chamisa make his final pitch...
@SkyNews
The major highways in Zimbabwe - like this one near Bulawayo - are virtually post-apocalyptic. No traffic, no cars, no petrol, no activity... accept the odd cart & donkey
Zimbabwean businessman tells me it's "total chaos in Zimbabwe right now." Finance Minister
@MthuliNcube
has dropped restrictions on some imports but hasn't made the big decisions required to restore trust & confidence.
The first of two
@SkyNews
reports from Zimbabwe challenging the ruling party's contention that the recent election was free, fair & free of violence and intimidation. It matters because they are seeking international finance to bail themselves out...
We’re on the ground in Amhara in Ethiopia as thousands of troops assemble on the front line of an increasingly fractured nation - with
@McGarwen
@GetachewSS
We join Irish UN peacekeepers on Lebanon's volatile southern frontier with Israel as their commander warns that the border clash is "progressing towards all-out war..." w/
@nevilleskynews
@camera_sam
via
@YouTube
An important moment in Mozambique - a crucial highway washed away by the cyclone has been temporarily fixed - with the help of engineers from ‘China State Construction’ ... now the NGO’s can start moving far more aid...
#CycloneIdai
It is going to be tough for
@TeeMuchehiwa
... it is a huge personal change after an incredibly traumatic episode and he still has financial worries. But in Leicester and its university, he was found a wonderful place to start again...
National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa say 65 miners workers rescued from pit in Welkom but a 1000 still underground. "There is no electricity so they are using a generator to power the cage to take workers to the surface."
Statement from the Met Police regarding our findings on the stowaway found in Clapham: Sky News has provided us with images of Paul Manyasi. Officers continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the death and are taking steps to confirm identification of the deceased.
Defiant, uncompromising statement from Tigray’s TPLF leadership on four month anniversary of conflict in northern Ethiopia - promising to continue war while seeking international support over human rights abuses...
The alleged abduction of Zimbabwean student, Tawanda Muchehiwa - carried out, it is believed, by a secret police unit whose members refer to themselves as 'the Ferrets' - this is the first such incident to be captured on CCTV:
Leo Mugabe tells me that his uncle - & notorious long-time Zimbabwean president, ‘will get a hero’s funeral’ at Harare’s Hero’s Acre cemetery. Some family members had insisted on burying him at his rural home but it seems the government has been persuasive & got its way...
In conversation with a Ukrainian army volunteer as he moves to the front line for the very first time. After Bucha, “the Russians must die,” he says but admits that, “everybody is a bit scared, nobody is sure they will return home.”
Government of Botswana calls reports that up to 90 elephants were poached in a single incident ‘misleading and sensational’. Survey indicates 53 died over long period, mostly from natural causes...
Chinja, chinja they cry (or change) at a rally for Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, the MDC - and with 90% unemployment most here feel they have nothing to lose....
Tawanda wanted to find a way to effect positive change in his homeland and applied for one of
@uniofleicester
's amazing "Citizens of Change" scholarships. Now he is first-year law student in the UK & cherishes the freedom; "the feeling of not having to watch my back is amazing."
Surviving bombs, shelling and persecution in Ethiopia, tens of thousands of refugees are on the road, heading for the national frontier. But the survivors must negotiate one final obstacle before they reach relative safety in Sudan... filmed by
@McGarwen
Gunfire and disorder in Wazirabad as former PM Imran Khan dodges an attempt on his life…
@CordeliaSkyNews
witnesses the scene in this compelling reportage:
Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin'ono
@daddyhope
has been remanded in custody over a tweet sent last week that damaged "public confidence in the reputation of the Zimbabwe Republic Police..." according to the authorities. Magistrate ordered that he be held in isolation....
Gold medalist Haile Gebreselassie’s position on the war is more nuanced than this article suggests. We’ve just interviewed him & he says he’s already helping the war effort - and he knows how to handle a gun - but he’s not heading to the front just yet
He was taken to a clearing in the bush and physically and emotionally tortured for the next three days. His life was saved when a judge ordered the police to find and release him. Remarkably, Tawanda's abduction was caught on a number of CCTV cameras:
Zimbabwe Election Commission
@ZECzim
says results from 11,000 polling stations nearly counted, official results from 3pm today, final result within 5 days .... and there’s been ‘no rigging or cheating’ they say...
Extraordinary scenes in Mobeni in Durban as thousands of people loot food warehouses and a rice depot … people are hungry but here, people have brought trucks and cars and stuffed them full with anything they can seize.
... civilian population after confrontations with opposition fighters. See our report from the village of Cheli last week where local residents allege the massacre of hundreds of people after a battle in the area (3/3):
...two smouldering army vehicles. Further towards Mekelle, we saw two, undamaged minibuses and a number of bodies lying in the ground off the road. We counted four or five. It is both upsetting and increasing typical as Ethiopian & allied forces carry out attacks on the (2/3)
Members of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the MDC, gathered for a speech at party HQ this morning by leader Nelson Chamisa. After he entered the building, police turned on crowd with batons, tear gas, whips and water cannon. Speech cancelled. No comment from the government...
I posted this on Tuesday. Kramatorsk station is centrally located w/ multiple platforms - it can’t be mistaken for anything else. Tens of thousands have been using it to evacuate - it can’t be mistaken for any other purpose. This rocket strike is a deliberate attack on civilians.
Sun’s up in Kamwokya in Uganda and residents are cuing up to vote - its calm, quiet and people waiting for the polling booth to cast their vote - in this case, a washing-up tub with a pen attached (which seems to work) ...
Ironic really, that Robert Mugabe died in a well-appointed Singaporean hospital while Zimbabwean hospitals and clinics struggle to provide their patients with paracetamol. But it's part of his complicated legacy - a nation liberated then impoverished by a man who wouldn't let go
Former govt minister Obert Mpofu tells inquiry into post-election violence in Zimbabwe that President Mnangagwa ordered troops onto streets - but deaths of 6 protestors were caused by 'snipers trying to soil government's credibility' - which will be viewed incredulously by many.
High Court in Uganda has set next Monday as date to rule on Bobi Wine and wife Barbra's attempt to leave their home which has been surrounded by security forces for the past week. The authorities deny holding Wine in custody, stating they are giving them "necessary protection"
They have been preparing for the worst in Goma and this is the worst case - the second and third Ebola victims confirmed in the city. Nearby Rwanda responds by shutting the border - threatening an economic as well as a public health emergency...
I've spoken to the South African organisers of the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID19 vaccine trial - participants due for 2nd dose have been rescheduled to later in the week/early next week. The pause in trial, a 'routine occurrence' they say....
I'm sorry about the news from 'Newsnight' ... a former editor compared it to a 'beautiful & expensive watch' passed from one generation to another. At C4 News we often marvelled and always tried to match it. It was bold & free-thinking and should - and will be - missed....
In Gaza youth offers no protection from the realities of war. We meet 3 children who tell us, they watched Israeli troops shoot their parents in front of them in Khan Yunis. Tragic stories & disturbing testimony w/
@Katy_Scholes
@skyzein
& team in Gaza.
Sky News gains unique access to an overcrowded camp holding IS family members including 19-year old Briton Shamima Begun. She tells me that she and her new born son are sick - before adding, "I am willing to change," in order to return to the UK:
Amongst the victims of the pandemic is Abdallah al-Bashir - the brother of Sudanese dictator Omar al-Bashir - who died yesterday of COVID. He was being held in a Khartoum prison on corruption charges. Elsewhere, 19 members of the Sudanese PM's office have caught the virus...
Bulawayo update: fewer beatings by Zimbabwe’s army and police but nightly patrols mean public have to be indoors by 6:30-7 ... “it’s an unofficial curfew” say our contacts.
Simon Mhlanga came home at Christmas, 75 years ago, after serving in Italy during WW2. Nobody thanked him or recognised his service (he was given a bike) .... but there are moves to alter this long-time historical injustice:
Three members of MSF - a Spaniard and two Ethiopians - were "brutally murdered" in Tigray. Their bodies were found close to their vehicle this morning. Another MSF team was attacked in March after they saw soldiers drag men from buses and shoot them...
Room '2' in the hospital in Kramatorsk could be any room, in any ward in eastern Ukraine says the director. But their searing accounts of indiscriminate violence - and the horrifying consequences - are anything but ordinary w/
@SkyGreenfield
@McGarwen
Filming us - filming them at the beginning of ‘Freedom Drive’ where Ugandan opposition leader, Bobi Wine, keeps the house that he is currently detained in. To the right, lawyer Benjamin Katana demands - and fails - to get access to his client...
Our latest from the region of Afar in Ethiopia where a deeply troubling civil conflict now threatens the lives of millions ... with
@McGarwen
and
@GetachewSS
Opposition leader Bobi Wine address the media in his garden and complains that the current internet blackout in Uganda is designed by President Museveni to “keep people in the dark” adding, his polling agents are being arrested and voter id machines aren’t working ...