Zimbabwe’s neighbours are under increasing pressure to do something about its chaos – in part because it is already spilling over in the form of migrants fleeing economic collapse and political clampdown.

PRESIDENT George W Bush criticised Zimbabwe’s bad governance yesterday, hours after President Robert Mugabe’s government taunted him for a climbdown from his hardline policy towards Harare.

FRESH US bloodshed in Iraq dogged President George W Bush yesterday as he ventured into Africa’s AIDS heart of darkness, telling Botswana that Americans wept for its victims of the killer virus.

UN SECRETARY-GENERAL Kofi Annan urged the United States to resist attacking Iraq, joining calls from leaders in Germany, China, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain yesterday for restraint in considering military action to topple Saddam Hussein.