Presidential candidate Barack Obama tells Jorge Ramos what he would do in Latin America.

The UK and the US urged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday to allow international monitors to ensure a free election run-off.

It's official. Americans won't be inaugurating a woman president next January. From a feminist perspective it's hard not to feel a bit defeated.

The whereabouts of Tendai Biti, secretary general of Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), are still unknown a day after his arrest.

Approval of Zuma as party president is hovering around 36% in urban areas, according to surveys conducted in February and April by research firm TNS.

With his popularity waning, ANC president Jacob Zuma faces a series of hurdles.

Zimbabwe journalists facing beatings or arrest if they are critical of the government, an African fact-finding mission said on Friday.

Zimbabwe's vote is unlikely to end the country's accelerating crisis, with neither side willing to enter a unity government to end the bloodshed.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe warned on Friday that his staunchest supporters are ready to take up arms rather than let the opposition triumph.

A vote for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Zimbabwe's June 27 run-off election will be akin to an act of war, Vice-President Joseph Msika was quoted as saying on Thursday.