CORRUPTION-ZIMBABWE: Land Grab Turns Sour

The 'fast track' land grab and resettlement the Zimbabwean government claims to have completed 'successfully' has been described as one huge national scandal.

HEALTH-MALAWI: Traditional Practices Transformed By AIDS

The small Southern African country of Malawi, with a population of just 11 million, has found itself at the heart of the AIDS pandemic.

LABOUR-SWAZILAND: Illegal Immigrants Replace Workforce Decimated by AIDS

Samito is a short, good-natured 15 year-old who seeks to support his girlfriend and their eight month-old baby by holding down two jobs.

ECONOMY-ZIMBABWE: Foreign Exchange Shortage, Remittance Boom

It could pass for an ordinary flea market selling cheap watches, toys, footwear and clothes imported from the Far East. What strikes the casual observer first is the sharp contrast between the makeshift shelters of black polythene, and the white robes worn by members of the Christian Apostolic sect who dominate the business in this Bulawayo market.

POLITICS-ZIMBABWE: Power Struggle Looms Within The Ruling Party

The opposition call for President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe to hand over power has been echoed worldwide, but less anxiously than the unpublished demand from within the ruling ZANU-PF.

TANZANIA-ECONOMY: DONORS U-TURN ON AID SUSPENSION POSITION

THE OUTCOME OF A TAX EVASION PROBE INVOLVING TOP GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS WILL DETERMINE WHETHER WESTERN DONORS LIFT A FREEZE ON DEVELOPMENT AID TO TANZANIA.