Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said he fears for his life after withdrawing from a presidential run-off election.
But Robert Mugabe is to press ahead with the June 27 vote, defying a UN Security Council call for the poll to be postponed.
Haru Mutasa reports on the violence and fear in Zimbabwe.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"