"Nearly one-third of Zimbabwe's registered voters are dead, and others appear to be babies or up to 120 years old, researchers said Friday,

If David Bahati succeeds in passing the death penalty for homosexuals in Uganda, we need to pray for our own deliverance in the United States. [...]

"In what's being hailed as an unprecedented move that will boost buyer awareness of blood diamonds, a global diamond trading network vowed Monday to expel any member who knowingly trades gems from two Zimbabwe mines where laborers have been killed and children enslaved.

To NGOs, the gems represent the repression they campaign against. But these riches could transform my country...

Moses ka Moyo has lived in Hillbrow for the past 11 years - working tirelessly as a community activist trying to bring change in the lives of average people, foreign and local.

His mission, with community workers, has been to create a sense of a real life in a place where few people would have wanted to live 10 years ago.

Never before has the Zimbabwean-born Ka Moyo felt as uncertain, or so in danger of his life, as he did last week.

"The United States will provide $73 million in aid to Zimbabwe, President Obama announced Friday after meeting with Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the White House. President Obama (right) praised Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai at the White House on Frida …

"In a country long plagued by violence, corruption, and an authoritarian government, Zimbabwe's President Mugabe is known as one of the worst anti-gay autocrats in Africa.

For nearly three weeks now, a strange sensation, something like limbo or maybe the silence after battle, has descended on South Africa. Julius Malema has shut up. The man who has filled newspaper front pages for over a year with an almost daily stream of prejudice and rage is suddenly silent. Even a five-day late-April visit to Venezuela to study the petronationalism of Hugo Chávez produced neither a racial tirade nor a press conference. In his absence, South Africa is finding time for more everyday worries, like crime or AIDS or whether it will be ready to host all humanity at the soccer World Cup in a month's time. No one expects the peace to last.

The Zimbabwe high court has approved the sale of diamonds from a field plagued by human rights abuses, as Harare moved to defy the Kimberley Process, state-run media reported on Tuesday.

The sale of 300 000 carats of diamonds from the eastern Marange fields was blocked last year by the international regulator after it found that Zimbabwe had failed to comply with human rights standards.