ZIMBABWE

AU representatives' note of approval may calm nerves amid suspicions of foul play.

In her brief life, Chiwoniso Maraire was highly accomplished.

Zambian President Michael Sata is becoming more and more restrictive.

Can a brand new TV station loosen Mugabe's iron grip on Zimbabwe and its media?

Mandela has already lived more than four decades longer than his fellow countrymen.

More than one-half (53 percent) of Malawians live below the poverty line, while more than 90 percent of the population lives on less than $2 per day.

Despite roadblocks, Zimbabwe's opposition candidate is optimistic about his chances of unseating President Mugabe.

Parvez Rasool wants to be judged only according to his athletic skills, not questioned about his political loyalties.

Some people in South Africa fear that the death of Nelson Mandela will lead to mass chaos and violence.

Despite opposition protests that a series of election reforms be allowed to pass first, Zimbabwe's president has set the country's election date.

Reportedly, Malawi had agreed to ship 100,000 young men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 to South Korea to work in factories and farms.

34-year-old Brighton Zanthe came back to life at his own funeral, shocking mourners who were paying their final respects.

A suspected poacher was reportedly trampled to death by an angered elephant during a botched poaching trip in a protected Zimbabwe game reserve.

Michigan native and former river guide Paul Templer described an incident in which he was swallowed by a hippo on the Zambezi River in Africa.

President Michael Sata's government could slash subsidies to corn millers as it cuts back on the expenses.

Across Africa, rhinos have been slaughtered by hunters who sell their horns to black markets in east Asia, primarily China and Vietnam.

Mugabe has ruled, or co-ruled, Zimbabwe since 1980.

Zimbabwe is set to hold elections later this year after adopting a new constitution.

The party of Zimbabwe's autocratic President Robert Mugabe is trying to patent designs used by an apparel label, House of Gushungo.

Among active world leaders, only Israel's Shimon Peres is older than Robert Mugabe.

The current ban on rhino horn has sucked the animals into a "supply-and-demand extinction vortex," scientists say.