Zambia’s new president Michael Sata has taken a strong stance on corruption, vowing to prosecute anyone found guilty of embezzlement.
Stone-throwing mobs smashed cars and blocked roads during voting in Lusaka after the opposition accused President Banda’s party of rigging the ballot.
The US has urged AU countries to take advantage of a trade act which grants well-governed African states preferential access to the US economy.
Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will ask a regional security summit on Thursday to stop what he says is a crackdown by Robert Mugabe.
African leaders on Thursday will try to defuse escalating tensions in Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe is accused of cracking down on rivals.
Ten years after fleeing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Muzungu Makoi says he is still haunted by the massacres and refuses to leave Zambia.