Zimbabwe is a deeply religious country. Daily discussions of the country's crisis end with Zimbabweans, black and white, saying: "We can only pray." So when the leaders of Zimbabwe's churches unanimously warn that the country faces "genocide" unless the international

About 6,000 public health workers will be hired in the next three years to reduce a shortage of staff in the sector, a Cabinet minister said on Tuesday.

The Family Health Division of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has begun an 11-day training for health workers in Margibi County which is intended to broaden their knowledge in childhood illness management

Dr Mark Blaylock, the chief medical officer of Manguzi Hospital, has been suspended for a month without pay for putting a picture of KwaZulu-Natal health MEC Peggy Nkonyeni into a dustbin.

The new Minister for Medical Services took over office and gave health graduates a reason to smile: The Government will recruit 6,000 employees in the next three years.

Apes are on the verge of extinction due to extreme poaching for bush meat and their global demand to be used for scientific research, but there are initiatives to save the endangered species.

United Nations Secretary-general, Ban Ki Moon, on an official visit to Liberia, has assured the country that the UN's drawn down plan will proceed in a cautious and gradual manner, to ensure that the gains made in consolidating peace are

The 15,000 strong United Nations peacekeeping force deployed in Liberia since 2003 has started pulling out but the UN will remain until all security challenges in the country are resolved, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in the Liberian

Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) Inspectors visited Tuesday the premises of the Angola Press Agency (Angop), where they learned of the organisation and functioning of the State-run media organ and expressed their satisfaction.

The Ministry of National Defense (MoND) and the British government on Thursday launched a Peacekeeping English Project (PEP) with a view to help Ethiopian peacekeepers meet the standards and participate in foreign peace missions.

The controversy surrounding a Chinese shipment of arms to troubled Zimbabwe has exposed growing regional anger over the way President Robert Mugabe has tried to cling to power despite his electoral defeat last month.

A local human rights advocacy and humanitarian group, Human Rights Group to Save Humanity has condemned the growing wave of police brutality and abuse of public office by local authorities against peaceful citizens in Gola Konneh District, Grand Cape Mount

A controversial arms shipment from China, meant for crisis torn Zimbabwe, might have been recalled back to China following pressure from African countries that refused to allow it to dock at their ports.

There were conflicting reports about the whereabouts of a Chinese ship, laden with a cargo of small arms destined for Zimbabwe, after it was turned away from South Africa's port city of Durban.

Kenya's security agencies have raised concern over an influx of illegal arms as a result of fighting between Islamist-led insurgents and government troops in Mogadishu, Somalia.

Mozambican president Armando Guebuza said in Maputo on Tuesday that the government has not been notified and was not aware of the presence of any Chinese ship in the country's waters carrying weapons to the neighbouring Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe's respected church leaders have called for urgent international intervention following reports that MDC activists are being systematically tortured and murdered by the Zanu-PF led regime.

Somalia's internal affairs and foreign affairs ministers have issued contradicting statements regarding the brutal massacre of 11 people at a Mogadishu mosque over the weekend.

The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) have issued a strongly worded statement condemning members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police and the security forces, for their failure to protect opposition supporters across the country, who are being targeted and brutalised in the