Full Coverage: Southern Africa

18.12.2007 Jacob Zuma is the new president of South Africa's ruling African National Congress.
From Mail & Guardian

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.
From New Statesman

18.12.2007 Desmond Tutu says South Africa has lost its moral direction, and the bitter contest for the ANC leadership offers no hope for new direction or ideas. William Gumede reports.

17.12.2007 "The SADC [South African Development Community] countries need to ratchet up their pressure [on Zimbabwe], and they need to do it not just behind doors but openly so that world public opinion can be mobilised behind African voices, behind African leadership," said the secretary-general of human rights organization, after attending a meeting in Cape Town last week to launch a new global campaign for human rights.

11.12.2007 The United Nations World Food Program is teaming up with the world's most popular food blog, Chez Pim, to raise money for small-scale farmers in the Southern African nation of Lesotho.

10.12.2007 When the Elders meet in South Africa today to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of their number will not be in attendance - Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest in Myanmar (formerly Burma), where she has been for 12 of the past 18 years.
+ 130 journalists jailed worldwide for keeping us informed

01.12.2007