On paper - and it's a paper he has yet to sign or even publicly admit exists - President Robert Mugabe appears to be acknowledging at last that he cannot rule Zimbabwe alone. ...more

September 15, 2008

which have done as much to hurt development as colonialism ever did. That's why after four decades and billions of dollars in aid from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the nations of sub-Saharan Africa remain among the world's poorest. ...more

July 5, 2008

President Bush announced Saturday that the United States was moving to broaden its sanctions against Zimbabwe, for the first time aiming at the government itself as well as a lengthening list of members of its governing elite, because of what he described as "a sham election." ...more

June 29, 2008

Just three weeks before Zimbabwe's presidential runoff, Robert Mugabe is giving the opposition little room to campaign - detaining its candidate, banning rallies and attacking diplomats who try to investigate political violence. ...more

June 7, 2008

Ian Smith, 88, the last white minority leader of Rhodesia, who vowed that blacks would not rule his country "in a thousand years," died Tuesday in a clinic outside Cape Town, after recently suffering a stroke. ...more

November 21, 2007