Renewed criticism against Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe amid a cholera outbreak shows growing international outrage at the suffering there, but action to oust his regime will be harder to come by.
Thousands of Zimbabweans are dying, uncounted and out of sight in a silent emergency as hospitals shut, clinics run out of drugs and most cannot afford private medical care, health groups say.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that it is "well past time" for Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe to leave office, as shown by the nation's cholera epidemic and health care crisis.
A southern African regional court ruled Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans could keep their farms, saying the government's land grab policy was racially motivated.
A white teenager has pleaded guilty in a shooting spree that killed four blacks and reignited racial tensions in post-apartheid South Africa.
By Michael Georgy
By Muchena Zigomo
A leading South African politician said Wednesday that he and other members of the governing African National Congress may break away to form a new opposition.
Zimbabwe's president lashed out at Western powers in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, accusing them of genocide and calling for the removal of U.S. and British sanctions.
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