UK, US wanted to remove Mugabe by force – Mbeki
The US and UK so badly wanted President Robert Mugabe removed that South Africa had to send government minister Lindiwe Sisulu to tell them...
I don’t believe in term limits, Museveni tells BBC
Uganda’s main opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been taken into police custody after vowing to lead a protest march against President Yoweri Museveni’s election...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni wins fifth term
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni shows his ink stained finger after voting in presidential electionsImage copyrightReuters
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President Yoweri Museveni won by a large margin
Ugandan President...
Zimbabwe’s main hydro power dam running out of water after drought
(Reuters) - Zimbabwe's main hydro power dam could stop producing electricity in six months if water levels keep falling after the nation's worst drought...
Uganda polls: Museveni’s main rival, Besigye, arrested
Police have arrested Uganda's main opposition presidential candidate, a day after tightly contested elections, a BBC reporter at the scene says.
Kizza Besigye was detained...
Uganda’s general elections close, vote counting starts
Millions of Ugandans yesterday turned out to vote in an election that will see a new president and legislators.
Polling started at 7am in most...
Congregants flee church after the ‘devil’ appears
Worshipers at a Pentecostal church sustained minor injuries after a naughty 15-year-old boy caused a stampede.
The faithful bolted out of the church, falling over...
Maid slices child (4)’s upper lip
A Harare maid who sliced the upper lip of her employer’s four-year-old daughter with a knife as punishment for failing to cut tomatoes was...
Plane saga: Body taken for post-mortem
The Western Global Airlines cargo plane impounded by security services at the Harare International Airport after the handling staff discovered a bleeding corpse aboard
The...