Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) on Tuesday demanded an end to a joint regional military offensive against its forces in DR Congo and urged UN mediators to organise fresh consultations. "It is now crystal clear that the military option that the three. . . .

A new Zimbabwean government would be set up by end-February, its ruling party said at a meeting in South Africa at the weekend. The Harare-based Herald Online reported on Monday that a senior Zanu-PF official, Nicholas Goche, met with SA facilitator Sydney Mufamadi in Musina on. . . .

Jestina Mukoko, who is to appear on charges of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe, is being poisoned in custody, a media report said.

Justice Dube, 35, was forced to return to his roots when the company he worked for as a mechanic shut down recently. He has taken up cultivating the family farm 100km northeast of Mbabane to support his young family. Coping with the sky-high cost of fertilizer was his main obstacle, until he turned to traditional practices.

Zimbabwe's telecommunication operators have been given regulatory approval to charge for all their products and services in foreign currency, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported. The newspaper cited industry players as saying that companies in the. . . .

South Africa said on Monday that the arrest of a leading human rights campaigner should not delay the formation of a unity government.