While driving a rusty old yellow taxi through Dakar's potholed streets looking for customers, Abdou Ndoye told IRIN how he and his family of nine gets by on the 2,000 CFA francs [US$4.80] he makes a day.

More than three months after the tragic landmine explosion on 2 December, 2007 at Gilanfari, a border village with the Senegalese region of Casamance, which led to the death of two students, there appears to be no sign of de-mining

The chairperson of the Association of Young Natives and Friends of Sao Tome and Principe's Community in Angola, Jose Augusto, on Saturday here defended the need for a major collaboration in the identification of the problems facing its member, Angop

Conferees at a recent Civil Society Sub-regional meeting, held at Hotel Auber in Ziguinchor, have asked the West African Network and Peace Building (WANEP) Officers in Ziguinchor, Banjul and Bissau to draw plans that will not only pave way for

Zimbabwe's representatives in the 2008 African soccer competitions, Dynamos and Highlanders, face tricky opponents this afternoon, but the next rounds of their respective competitions are already firmly in sight.

WAITING for Godot is an epic play by Samuel Beckett, in which, as the title suggests, the characters spend time waiting for Godot.

A Gwanda businessman allegedly "branded" two men on their bare buttocks as they hung from ropes at his slaughterhouse, according to the victims.

THE Zimbabwe Football Association resolved not to retain outgoing Vice-President Joseph Msika as patron during its Annual General Meeting held in Harare on Friday night.

THE Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) organisers have dedicated this year's edition to the resilience and determination of the people of Zimbabwe.

ZANU PF's loss of a majority in the House of Assembly must be seen as the prelude to the revival of the economy from an eight-year battering, analysts said last week.

Producers of the popular IsiNdebele soap Izolo Yizolo have been forced to temporarily suspend the production due to lack of sponsorship and new work commitments for its scriptwriter and producer, Standardplus confirmed last week.

A coalition of churches working for a peaceful resolution of Zimbabwe's crisis has told Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai to be cautious when negotiating a deal for a government of national unity with President Robert Mugabe.

The stage is now set for a fluid run-off between President Robert Mugabe and his main challenger, Morgan Tsvangirai, but analysts are not sure whether it may not turn violent as the two fight for their political survival.

A South African satellite technician, Abdulla Gaibee, spent a week in a Zimbabwe jail, charged with violating that country's communications laws, according to the Freedom for Expression Institute (FXI). On Friday, 4 April 2008, a Harare court acquitted Gaibee, but

Robert Mugabe is 16 years shy of his 100th birthday but his energy to retain power is one of the most talked about news stories.

The head of the Botswana Peoples Party, Bernard Balikani has called on the Southern African Development Community and African Union leaders to intervene in Zimbabwe before the situation gets worse.

Forty years ago last Friday, Martin Luther King Junior was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.

A Zimbabwean friend e-mailed me recently wondering why so few of her Kenyan friends had reached out to her as Zimbabwe underwent a strangely Kenya-like delay in vote tallying after its election on March 29.

For those East Africans who haven't watched it, Gangs of New York (starring Leonardo Dicaprio) is a movie about the struggle by Irish immigrants to carve out a niche in the squalid, violence-plagued politics of Five Acres, the legendary 19th

A group of Zimbabwean youth activists gathered at government offices in Pretoria on Monday, to hand over a petition to President Thabo Mbeki after he made comments about Zimbabwe's elections that angered the group.