Zambia's president urged regional states on Monday to bar a Chinese ship carrying arms to Zimbabwe from entering their waters, saying the shipment could deepen the country's election crisis. Zimbabwe announced a delay on Sunday in a partial recount of votes in March 29 parliamentary elections...

When is a crisis not a crisis? When it is in Zimbabwe. The 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit ran almost 10 hours over schedule. A senior Zambian official said the delay was caused by a disagreement among leaders over whether the post-election impasse should be called a crisis...

"We have taken what appears to be harsh measures. We attained the HIPC (Highly indebted Poor Countries) completion point and we had all our US$ 7 billion debt written off.....We would rather be remembered as having performed.....Now it does not matter whether you are a minister or not; you will...