[RNW Africa] Harare - Sex was on people's minds at a recent debate in Zimbabwean senate. Adult toys are a way to suppress homosexual practices in prisons, said one MP. Her proposal is called "a joke" by a minister in the government of rabidly anti-gay President Robert Mugabe. But in this country where intercourse between men is illegal, many are not laughing.

[Vanguard] Super Falcons head coach, Kadiri Ikhana has expressed readiness of his team ahead of the 2012 African Women Championship qualifying first leg fixture against Zimbabwe in Harare on May 27.

I was in Harare’s Travel Plaza collecting an airline ticket at Wings Travel Bureau. Yep I’ve got itchy feet again and 66 days from today will see me land at Heathrow on Ethiopian Airways via Lusaka and Bole, Addis Ababa, on the third day of the Olympics.

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Organizers of a classical music festival in Zimbabwe say authorities arrested a prominent British music personality at a concert in the second city of Bulawayo.

AFP/Harare Zimbabwe’s justice minister said yesterday that reports of torture and violence against political activists were “lies”, during a visit by UN rights chief Navi Pillay.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's RioZim Limited has opened talks with Rio Tinto in a bid to take full control of the Murowa diamond mine as the global mining major seeks to leave the gem business, a key shareholder said on Thursday. Rio Tinto has a 78 percent stake in Murowa, a diamond mine which produced 324,000 carats in the last financial year, while RioZim controls 22 percent of the mine ...

[The Herald] Maternity and casualty units in any hospital face a common problem of planning. Babies are not born on schedule and accidents happen at almost any time. This means that any maternity unit almost certainly needs higher staff ratios and more beds and equipment than the average daily rate of deliveries would indicate, so that it can cope with sudden spates of births.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - State radio says 13 people died and six were seriously injured in Zimbabwe when a crowded minibus burst a tire and slammed into a tree.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Zimbabwe's justice minister rejected allegations that the country has state sponsored violence and he vowed not to recognize gay rights after meeting with the U.N. human rights chief on Monday.

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