The deadlock in the Zimbabwe power-sharing deal is threatening to revive the messy diplomatic confrontation between Zimbabwe and its diamond-rich neighbour, Botswana.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is mobilising economic aid for its troubled member state Zimbabwe.

CABINET talks between the country's three main political parties, which were widely expected to have been concluded yesterday, dragged on late into the evening with indications that a solution was in sight.

Tendai Moyo, 28, living in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, goes into a shop in the downtown area and heads for a shelf where, a day ago, she saw a feeding bottle she wanted to buy for her three-month-old son.

The severe food crisis in Zimbabwe is putting the lives of the country's children at great risk - with many youngsters already beginning to succumb to the effects of malnutrition, disease and starvation.

Several journalists were on Thursday 9 October 2008 barred from entering the Prime Minister Designate, Morgan Tsvangirai's Strathaven home in Harare for a press conference.

Last month leaders of the main political parties agreed to share power and part of the deal was that politicians agreed to see to the closure of external radio stations such as SW Radio Africa, Voice of the People and

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki was yesterday winding up consultations to break the impasse over the allocation of cabinet posts among Zimbabwe's three main political parties under the power sharing agreement with reports that a deal was imminent.

Zambia's tens of thousands of peasant farmers are crucial to the country's food security, yet they have little voice in agricultural policy. Cecilia Violet Makota is one of the rare exceptions.

In 1975, as the last prolonged stage of Africa's decolonization process began with the fall of Portuguese colonialism, Portugal's neighbor Spain decided to dispose of its colony of Western Sahara by handing it over to Morocco and Mauritania, defying a

Major economies in the world are experiencing downturn as a result of the credit crunch which has resulted in governments injecting more monies to save big organizations that have been hard hit.

The Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD), a branch of Nigerian Union of Petroleum and and Natural Gas workers yesterday began a nationwide warning strike to protest the prohibitive cost of diesel, which is forcing employers to close businesses and putting tanker

Over fifty members of staff of Gboko Local Government Council of Benue State, yesterday marched to the Benue State House of Assembly to protest the non-payment of their ten months salary by the Gboko Local Government Council.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Dimeji Bankole, has called for caution in concession of the nation's ports, saying the primary considerations should be efficiency and national interest.

The current global crisis is unprecedented in the history of the modern world and it is having a catastrophic effect on the financial well being of millions of people around the world. As at last week, the United States Stock

Workers in the federal civil service has warned that unless the disparity in salaries and allowances of various categories of staff are minimised, industrial disharmony cannot be ruled out.

ACHIMFO Cocoa Plantation Limited (ACOPLANT), a cocoa growing company in the Aowin Suaman District, is loosing millions of cedis, as a result of continuous harassment and destruction of farm properties belonging to the company, by irate youth of Achimfo.

The supply of oil and its consumption is finite, despite new discoveries of oil fields in the world. Unpredictable pricing of oil creates economic turbulence throughout the world.

Debate on a motion seeking to scrap the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FRMA) caused a rancorous session in the Senate yesterday.

The Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) has been shut down over shortage of crude oil arising from the vandalisation of the pipelines that supply crude to the refinery between the Warri and Auchi axis.