Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Thursday said his country would have better relations with London if the Conservatives win the next elections.

Zimbabwe has released three Botswanan game rangers who strayed across its borders while tracking wild animals, causing a diplomatic stand-off between the two countries, media reported on Wednesday.

African leaders wrapped up a three-day summit here Tuesday, calling for action on coups and increasing pressure on Madagascar's political foes to honour deals meant to end a prolonged crisis.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick arrived in Sierra Leone Tuesday for the start of an eight-day, three-nation tour of Africa which will also take him to the Ivory Coast and Ethiopia.

New clashes between Christians and Muslims in the Nigerian city of Jos left nearly 200 dead, a senior Muslim cleric and a paramedic said Tuesday, as troops were deployed to the city.

Nigerian lawmakers voted Tuesday to send a delegation to Saudi Arabia to discuss "issues of national importance" with ailing President Umaru Yar'Adua as protests mounted for him to stand down.

South African President Jacob Zuma's popularity edged upward in his first months of office, with his rating from minority white voters more than doubling, a survey showed on Friday.

South African President Jacob Zuma is set to marry his fifth wife in a traditional ceremony at his rural village in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, the presidency said in a statement Sunday.

 A Zimbabwe farmer on Sunday said he would stop at nothing to salvage his belongings after he was forcefully removed from his property last week.

Former South African health minister Mantombazane Tshabalala-Msimang, whose AIDS policies drew international opprobrium, died Wednesday after a long battle with liver disease.

The Red Cross on Friday appealed for 33 million dollars in food relief for Zimbabwe to prolong emergency aid next year to more than 220,000 HIV-stricken or impoverished people.

The king of South Africa's Zulus wants to revive the practice of circumcision among his people to help fight the spread of AIDS, the Sapa news agency reported Sunday.

A 23-year-old Nigerian suspected of scamming foreigners over the Internet who then gave most of the proceeds as tithes to a Lagos church has been arrested, the anti-graft agency EFCC said on Sunday.

A predominately white South African trade union accused the government Thursday of putting racial job quotas ahead of fighting crime.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Sunday pledged to give Africa 10 billion dollars in loans, brushing off criticism of "neo-colonialism" as China boosts its presence on the continent.

MAPUTO — Southern African regional leaders meet Thursday in the Mozambican capital Maputo for a summit aimed at reviving the troubled power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe, deadlocked for nearly three weeks.

Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another country, a poll showed Tuesday.

Corruption is everywhere in the world, but  in some places it is done in the public in broad daylight.

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai Friday urged Angola's president to use his influence in the region to rescue Harare's unity government, which he boycotted last week.

The South African government will not tolerate violent protests that have rocked poor townships, President Jacob Zuma said Tuesday while calling for service delivery to be stepped up.