May 12 2008
Police officers voting in Zimbabwe’s presidential run-off have been threatened with the firing squad if they defy an order to re-elect Robert Mugabe. Bulawayo police chiefs have warned junior officers they will be shot unless they pledge support...
May 10 2008
Of all the eminent figures drafted from outside Labour politics into Gordon Brown’s “government of all the talents” last year, Lord Malloch-Brown, foreign office minister for Africa, Asia and the UN, probably had the toughest entry...
May 2 2008
Congo Not too long ago, the 30-mile journey from this village to the nearest city was virtually impossible by car. It took at least 14 hours walking from dawn to dark, an odyssey in flip-flops through woods, over fallen trees, along a bumpy red-dirt...
Apr 24 2008
In these days of high-tech economic globalization, Innocent Luamba digs for copper and cobalt in the manner of the ancient Romans, by hand. As world mineral prices soar, the former soldier makes less than $5 on a good day of toiling 20 yards...
Apr 10 2008
I left Africa in 1985, nearly 23 years ago and I haven’t been back. But like some things in life, once you become involved, you can never quite put it out of your mind. Africa, or more specifically, Sierra Leone in West Africa has been like that...
Apr 8 2008
Militant ruling party supporters invaded white-owned farms Monday, a day after President Robert Mugabe urged Zimbabweans to defend seized land, fanning fears he would stage a violent crackdown to retain power. The invasions happened as the...
Apr 4 2008
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party filed an urgent high court application today to force the electoral commission to release results from last weekend’s presidential election, its lawyer said.
Mar 31 2008
The first results from Zimbabwe’s elections were due to be announced on Monday after the opposition accused authorities of sitting on the outcome in a bid to keep President Robert Mugabe in power. As complaints mounted over the delay in releasing...
Mar 15 2008
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced tentative plans to send a rover to the surface of the Moon. The MoonNext concept rover will carry out science on the lunar surface, and also do important tests on technologies attached to the rover.