The more opponents urge President Robert Mugabe to quit, the more he wants to stay put. His backers insist that he will be running again in the 2002...

The stance of Zimbabwe's 40,000-strong armed forces will be critical in the coming months. At the senior officer level, there is still tremendous loyalty to the ruling Zimbabwe...

The Mercs to Malawi affair - the purchase of 39 top-notch Mercedes-Benz limousines by President Bakili Muluzi's aid-dependent government - turned discontent into crisis. This has had three...

The ruling United Democratic Front is struggling to pick its presidential candidate for 2004 and its continuity camp wants a third term for Bakili Muluzi, which would mean...

Is President José Eduardo dos Santos' government, slopping around in oil revenues, serious about economic reform at last? Luanda officials claim it is, pointing to Dos Santos' appointment...

Two weeks of mass opposition protests and clashes with the army and police have further weakened President Robert Mugabe and his opponents draw parallels with the overthrow of...

South Africans feel unsafe. Fear of criminals demoralises people and is a major cause of emigration. High expectations therefore attach to the first black Commissioner of Police, Jackie...

Zambian Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, healer and exorcist in Rome for 18 years, has been silently sacked as Vatican Special Delegate to the Pontifical Commission for Migration and Tourism.

In the Cape Town area in the past 27 months, 21 bombings have caused three deaths and injured at least 130 people. In Cape Town itself, a major...

The Movement for Democratic Change, offspring of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, amazed everybody by winning 57 of the 120 seats contested at the parliamentary elections in...