CURRENT efforts to fight AIDS, including international commitments to achieve universal access to treatment, care and support by 2010 will fail if the pervasive stigma faced by people living with HIV is not tackled more aggressively.

TICK-BORNE and tsetse fly induced diseases in Gwanda, Matabeleland South are reported to be killing cattle.

ZANU-PF candidate in the presidential election run-off President Mugabe yesterday romped to a landslide victory against MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

PRESIDENT Mugabe left Harare last night for Sharm El Sheikh Resort of Egypt to attend the African Union summit that begins today.

June has been an interesting month to me but I won't delve into all. But realising that I share a birthday with Mr Thabo Mbeki and birth month with Mr Timothy Kalyegira was... But more seriously, I am half Mr

The International Commission of Jurists has named a Ugandan to head a panel of eminent jurists and human rights defenders to inquire into the current Zimbabwe crisis and brief the heads of state of the African Union.

What's the future for your country now?

Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is optimistic about the future of his country. Speaking to the Sunday Nation from the Dutch embassy in Harare where he has sought refuge, he said Zimbabwe "will rise from the ashes."

Your Excellency,

The meeting of the African Union's heads of government and state currently in the resort town of Sharm-el Sheik, Egypt, needs to embrace an emerging continental leadership mode. Present are leaders who told one of their own: Hold it!

June 27 was the final straw that broke the camel's back for Mr Phibeon Shereni, a 45 year old secondary teacher in Zimbabwe's capital Harare.

Despite pulling out of the presidential run-off and urging voters to boycott the poll the MDC won the Mpopoma by-election while ZANU PF 'won' the two by-elections in Redcliff and Gwanda. The results come as no surprise because of the

CHINA has indicated its unwillingness to support a United States call for a UN arms embargo for Zimbabwe.US plans to introduce discussions this week at the UN Security Council which include both an arms embargo and extension of travel bans

Whatever rhetoric on Zimbabwe's political crisis emerges from the African Union heads of state meeting in Egypt on Monday and Tuesday, reports on the meeting indicate a growing consensus around demands for a negotiated settlement setting up a transitional government

Some African countries have expressed concern over the peace and security situation in Zimbabwe at a foreign ministerial meeting of the African Union (AU) Executive Council and have made recommendations on the matter, says Tanzania's Foreign Minister Bernard Membe.

LONG queues continue to be the order of the day at most banking halls in Bulawayo amid reports that some banks are using depositors' money to buy foreign currency at the expense of the depositors.

There was a record number of spoilt ballots in Friday's one man presidential run-off . Officially ZEC put the number of spoiled ballots at 130 000 but election observers said the actual number was much higher.

Suggestions that Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma had "lobbied AU colleagues to maintain the status quo" after a caucus meeting on Friday - which would include recognition of Mugabe as President, as reported in a Sunday newspaper,

Freedom House urges the African Union to lead a global effort to exclude Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe from regional and international bodies, starting with Monday's African Union summit in Egypt. Mugabe has vowed to attend the summit which comes just

A Scantily-dressed middle-aged woman with ruby red lips wiggled her waist interminably on the cracked verandah of the old shop much to the delight of onlookers.