Zim is the big story right now here but the other African stories get a guernsey regularly. But then I don't watch commercial tv news (can't stand the ads every two minutes) so I don't know what trash they're running as news.

I do listen to the BBC World Service a great deal through a 24-hour ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) news station here and yes, the World Service has a great Africa coverage, they dig up stories that other sources tend to ignore.

I do wonder though if Anglophones like me are getting news about former Anglophone colonies whereas former French, Belgian, Portuguese etc colonies might get shoved to the background.