In what’s being hailed as an unprecedented move that will boost buyer awareness of blood diamonds, a global diamond trading network vowed Monday to expel any member who knowingly trades gems from two Zimbabwe mines where laborers have been killed...

“Economic and political challenges” combined with underfunded recovery and development are keeping Zimbabwe in a seemingly perpetual state of humanitarian need, aid agencies said to justify an upward revision of US$100 million in projected...

Robert Mugabe has said he has no plans to retire and will stand in the next presidential election if his party endorses his candidacy — a move which will heighten fears that he is determined to be president for life. Mugabe’s decision to stay on...

For years, much of the debate over Zimbabwe has been preoccupied with how much, and how publicly, to criticize its despotic longtime leader Robert Mugabe. In the past, the West routinely harangued the ailing 85-year-old dictator, a former liberation...

The fight against corruption in Africa’s most pivotal nations is faltering as public agencies investigating wrongdoing by powerful politicians have been undermined or disbanded and officials leading the charge have been dismissed, subjected to death...