The government intensified its crackdown on critics and opponents. Davison Maruziva, editor of the independent newspaper The Standard, was jailed for printing an opinion article by a prominent opposition politician. The police also arrested Lovemore...

There is no shortage of good things to eat in the open-air Wholesale Market here in Nicaragua’s capital. Canvas sacks groan with rice and lentils. White eggs are stacked neatly, 30 to a box, fresh from the hens that laid them. But talk to...

South African President Thabo Mbeki decided to disband an elite crime-fighting unit against an official recommendation to keep it operating, documents released Monday said. A 144-page report compiled after a 2006 inquiry into the Directorate of Special...

Climate change appears to have permanently altered certain areas of east and southern Swaziland, where good harvests have not been achieved for over a decade. Agriculture officials and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) now question whether these...