Over 200 women and children have been raped by rebels in the Congo in recent weeks, according to UN...

The South African government's latest 7.5% wage increase offer has been rejected by unions demanding...

A UN report on the rapes that took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was released on...

A South African pastor has angered Christians by preaching a sermon entitled 'Jesus was HIV positive' in a bid to combat the stigma surrounding HIV and...

Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni will arrive here on Saturday on a two-day visit to the State, where she is expected to review the functioning of all media units of Information and Broadcasting in Kerala to evolve a road map for overall improvement and...

India and the United States joined forces to showcase the strengths of India's HIV/AIDS prevention and control program for a delegation from Ghana, a real-life example of the bilateral partnership on global...

George Clooney has said that amongst all his humanitarian efforts, Darfur has been the biggest failure of his...

NATO -led forces and the Pakistani military to eliminate insurgent sanctuaries. Visiting Afghanistan, the Defense secretary says he and Karzai have agreed on the need for stepped up collaboration...

Maputo - The deadly food riots in poverty-stricken Mozambique reflect public anger at the ruling party's failure to curb poverty and create more jobs since coming to power in 1975, analysts say. ...

On the streets of Maputo the capital of Mozambique riots flared for the third successive day. Police fired rubber bullets and reports say up to ten people have now been killed with over four hundred...

Manzini — Swaziland has yet to act on a 2006 World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation to alleviate health worker shortages through task-shifting and according to the Ministry of Health,...

South Africa's national soccer team Bafana Bafana must win Saturday's 2012 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Niger "at all costs", coach Pitso Mosimane said on Thursday.The...

Angola coach Luis Magalhaes said that Australia was a very good team and that his team had difficulties in competing against Australia. Australia upset Angola 76-55 in Group A game in FIBA 2010 World...

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The Obama administration, which came to office promising stronger leadership on Sudan, is now scrambling to salvage a 2005 U.S.-backed peace accord and prevent Africa's largest nation from sliding...

September 4, 2010 Maputo - Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3-million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said on Friday, as state media...

Three demonstrators have been killed and 27 injured in the Mozambique city of Chimoio, as protests against price rises enter their third day. Police in the capital, Maputo, fired teargas and rubber...

The UN has called an urgent meeting on rising global food prices in an attempt to head off a repeat of the 2008 crisis that sparked riots around the...

MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambique's economy has lost more than $3 million because of deadly riots over the rising prices of food and other goods, the government said Friday, as state media...

Submit your comment The Mozambican government's top spokesman said Thursday that price hikes in the country are "irreversible" despite violent protests that left seven dead and 288 wounded. "The...

Submit your comment Retail development in Mozambique is set to increase significantly over the next few years, says Wayne Wright, business development director for JHI property services company. ...

The United Nations peacekeeping mission set up after the end of the north-south civil war has opened its first field office for the referendum to be held next January on whether the south should...

Food security in many parts of Southern Sudan is set to improve after good rains, according to recent crop and precipitation assessments. Some 2.4 million people in Southern Sudan received aid...

September 3, 2010 The United Nations has delayed the release of a report detailing a decade of gruesome attacks against civilians in the Congo after Rwanda protested the findings. Drafts of the...

New Zealand's South Island early Saturday and caused widespread damage, but no deaths and only two serious injuries were reported. Looters broke into some damaged shops in Christchurch, police said. ...

As violence escalates, lawmakers pass a bill that would criminalize membership in gangs. Activists say the measure will not deter the gangs, and urge addressing root causes and...

Obama administration is considering a substantial spending increase on the Mexican drug war, the latest sign of its growing concern about the rampant violence incited by narcotics cartels...

Reporting from London — It isn't much to look at: a gray lump of rock behind an ugly metal grill, attached to an even uglier building. You have to crouch down to see it, and its admittedly...

Nouri Maliki named a candidate to head the next Iraqi government, a move that poses a new obstacle to the incumbent and is likely to further complicate formation of the government. Maliki has been...

ontinuing fighting in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has caused the displacement of at least 22,000 more civilians and forced relief agencies to curtail their operations in the war-scarred city during...

"I would vomit and itch over my whole body after taking the drugs," the now 16-year-old Gathece remembers. "This was made worse by the fact that there was barely anything to eat in the house because...

United Nations — Twenty-eight minors have been documented as victims of last month's four-day raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),...

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki met here Friday with chen Zhili, vice chairwoman of the Standing Committee of National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature with both promising to make...

South Africa will resume the deportation of undocumented Zimbabweans on 1 January 2011, ending its 17-month moratorium, the Cabinet announced on 1 September. "After the 31st of December [2010] all...

Palestinian security forces, reformed and retrained, have made a strong show of force, arresting hundreds of suspects. But human rights groups accuse them of detaining people without proper...

Documents reveal a battle between the West and developing countries over whether to place Israel's nuclear program under controls, as demanded by an Arab-sponsored resolution adopted by the...

World Bank says Population Growth, Climate Change Demand Better Water Management A new medical test can detect tuberculosis in less than two hours. Health experts say it could revolutionize the way...

In the ashes of a looted market in one of Africa’s biggest slums, gang leader Bernard Njira stood with a machete in his hand, trying to decide whether to kill the man who had approached him.It...

New Delhi, Sep 3 : Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma today stressed the need to step up India's trade and economic engagement with Ghana, saying this could be achieved through early...

New Delhi, Sep 3 : A ten-member delegation from Ghana visited India from August 20 to 28 to learn about the country's practices in HIV/AIDS prevention and control efforts and was particularly...

BILL CORCORAN in Cape TownHUNDREDS OF thousands of Zimbabweans could face deportation from South Africa early next year following the government’s decision to end an amnesty on the need to have...

The referendum commission in Sudan has unanimously agreed on who should take up the key position of secretary-general of the body. Representatives from northern and southern Sudan had for months...

Citing construction delays, the Museum for African Art said on Friday that it had pushed back the planned opening of its new Manhattan home by about six months, from April 2011 to September or...

A Somali reporter working for a radio station in the semiautonomous region of Puntland was stabbed to death in the town of Galkacyo on Tuesday night, a local radio Web site and the national...

Mexico , a route traveled by thousands of Salvadorans before her. Two weeks later she was dead. Yedmi was among the 72 Central and South American migrants found slain in northern Mexico's...

WALIKALE, DR Congo: Suspected rebels have raped at least 242 women within a few days in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Nord-Kivu Province, according to an American medical...

PRETORIA--South Africa's foreign minister said Thursday the informal grouping of fast-growing emerging economies known as BRIC — Brazil, Russia, India and China — should add South Africa to...

Injury has ruled Wales Women's full-back Non Evans out of their final game of the World Cup, Sunday's ninth-placed play-off against South Africa."It's really frustrating to pick up the injury...