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| 1999, Sept. 12–16 |
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| Zambia hosted the Eleventh International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the capital city of Lusaka (See 1999, Sept. 12–16). Southern Africa continued to be the region most devastated by HIV/AIDS in the world, with UN estimates citing Botswana as the world's most afflicted country, 36 percent of its population having been infected with the AIDS virus. One-fifth to one-fourth of the populations of Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe were also infected, according to UN estimates. | 1 |
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| 2000, Feb. 12 |
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| Taking into consideration a nationwide fuel crisis, 50 percent unemployment, and 60 percent inflation, voters in Zimbabwe rejected a new constitution that would have given Pres. Mugabe a 12-year term in office. New elections were planned for 2002 (See 2000, Feb. 12). | 2 |
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| Dec. 1 |
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| Because violence had continued to rise against white landowners due to Zimbabwe's land redistribution policies, South African and Nigerian presidents Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obasanjo met with Pres. Mugabe to discuss possible monetary compensation for white landowners. UN representatives also visited in order to urge Mugabe to change his land program unless he was prepared to face greater economic sanctions and international discord (See Dec. 1). | 3 |
| Southern Africa north of the Limpopo, country by country, from 1960: | 4 |
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