Cat Pritchard ventures to the Zambian side of the Victoria Falls to ‘join the treevolution’ by 
helping to plant 5 000 trees in three weeks.
Leaders at a Southern African security summit criticised the deadlock in Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government on Friday.
In advance of World Malaria Day on Friday, several African countries have called for a joint international initiative to combat the disease that kills more than one million people each year, mostly young children in Africa. Malaria is still a major public health problem in about 90 countries. Every 30 seconds it kills a child in Africa.
While the Zambian hotels and resorts fronting the Victoria Falls are teeming with tourists, it is relatively quiet on the other side of the river. "Zimbabwe’s political and economic woes have benefited us tremendously," explains one of the locals, adding that tourism has probably been the biggest benefactor.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu visited an inmate on Texas’s death row on Wednesday, saying it would be ”one of the greatest tragedies” if the man was executed and describing capital punishment as an ”absurdity that brutalises society”.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Thursday called for the fight against Aids to be stepped up as he opened a meeting between Southern African ministers and United Nations agencies involved in battling the pandemic. Mwanawasa said his government is committed to providing ”all the political will that is necessary”.