Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Wednesday that political rival President Robert Mugabe should resign because of his ailing health and advanced age. The 87-year old leader is believed to be terminally ill with prostate canceri.
The Archbishop of Canterbury asked President Robert Mugabe Monday to put an end to “unacceptable and illegal behaviour” against Anglicans in Zimbabwe during a two day visit to the country.
Muammar Gaddafi's family has been given asylum in Algeria. Libya's western neighbour says Gaddafi's wife and three of his children are there for "humanitarian reasons". Libya's National Transitional Council want them back but Algeria does not recognise the NTC as Libya's official government. Algeria's not alone in its stance. We take a closer look at some of Gaddafi's remaining international allies.
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai (pictured) said Thursday he had lost patience with his unity government partner, President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, calling for new elections under a regional roadmap.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has threatened to nationalise large foreign firms in retaliation against Western sanctions targeting his regime, a move critics say could deal a further blow to an already struggling economy.
It's been two years since Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai signed a deal to form a power-sharing government in Zimbabwe, bringing to an end months of violence and political instability. But what successes has the National Unity Government achieved in that time? The hyperinflation that once saw prices double every 24 hours has been brought under control, but some Zimbabweans might argue that nothing much else has changed.
Uneasy bedfellows in Zimbabwe mark two years of power sharing, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai's governing relationship is still strained.
There are claims of vote rigging in Uganda as President Museveni is re-elected for a fourth term.
One man and his motorbike! We go to meet the star of last year's critically acclaimed Chadian movie, A Screaming Man.
A group of Zimbabwean political rights activists say they were brutalised and tortured by police following their arrest last week on treason charges. The group had been discussing the uprising that led to the fall of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Authorities in Zimbabwe have arrested two of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s drivers, heightening tensions between his MDC party and President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF ahead of planned polls the MDC says could cause a bloodbath.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe threatened to nationalise firms from countries that have imposed sanctions over his government's alleged human rights violations on Friday, specifically targeting American and British companies.
