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The World Wildlife Fund, or WWF, ranked Vietnam the worst country for wildlife protection among 23 nations assessed for enforcement and protection of species prone to poachers, such as rhinos, elephants and tigers. (Check out the full report and list here).

?The time has come to do something more drastic toward economic transformation and freedom,? Zuma said.

Zuma?s ruling party has proposed that the nation?s key mining sector pay more in taxes to finance social spending and also wants to encourage state-owned enterprises to create more jobs.

A group of Zimbabwe politicians got circumcised in Harare on Friday as part of a public campaign to fight HIV, but not all MPs support the practice.

As expected, the App Store has officially launched in 32 new countries as of Friday, including Albania, Fiji, Namibia, Nepal, and Ukraine. This means that app developers can now sell or distribute their applications for gaming, productivity, news, business, education and entertainment in a total of 155 countries around the globe.

The State Department released its report ahead of the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln?s Emancipation Proclamation, which freed the slaves in the U.S. South in 1863.

For the third time in a mere two weeks, the motorcade of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has been involved in a fatal accident. Who is to blame?

The accident happened in an area formerly operated by diamond giants De Beers.

Gabriel Shumba, chief of ZEF and a Zimbabwean human rights attorney, praised the ruling.

India and Russia have chosen to boycott Zimbabwe's 53rd International Trade Fair this year to express their deep discontent with the country's new policies to nationalize and seize control over foreign companies.

In 1980, Bob Marley performed for a crowd of more than 100,000 in Zimbabwe, a country that had just been pardoned from British rule. The circumstances of the event made for one of the best scenes in Marley, a lengthy documentary that focuses on the singer's life and astounding rise to global stardom.

The Kimberley Process only addresses diamonds produced in areas controlled by rebel militias. It doesn’t take into consideration violence committed by government forces.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has yet to return from a trip to Singapore, and rumors that he is hospitalized and in critical condition are quickly intensifying.

We encourage people to use public transport, he was quoted saying to AFP.

A Zimbabwe court judge announced that six activists who had been arrested for watching videos of the Arab Spring would not be sent to jail. Autocratic politicians there may be learning a lesson from uprisings abroad: the importance of restraint.

Donald Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, came under fire from animal rights activists after their photographs posing with dead animals from an African hunting safari last year surfaced online.

South Africa's Impala Platinum said on Wednesday that the Zimbabwean government would have to find the money to buy the 31 percent stake it wanted in its local unit Zimplats or the stake would not be transferred.

A war of words between South Africa's Impala Platinum and Zimbabwe intensified on Thursday, when the world's second-biggest platinum producer denied offering to hand over a stake in its local unit to the government.

Impala Platinum, the world's second-biggest producer, has made an irrevocable offer to hand over a 29.5 percent stake in its Zimplats unit to a state-run fund, a senior Zimbabwe minister said on Wednesday.

Six suspected leaders of the international hacking organization known as Anonymous were charged by U.S. authorities of computer crimes, dealing a major blow to the loose-knit group that has wreaked havoc on the websites of government agencies and major corporations.

Impala Platinum, the world's second-largest platinum producer, said on Wednesday that it would not exit Zimbabwe despite the demands being made by the government that it hand over majority stakes in its local operations to Zimbabweans.