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In the past 24 hours, police have found the bodies of at least 85 men killed by gunfire execution-style in a gruesome wave of apparent sectarian killing, the interior ministry…
Gunmen wearing commando uniforms of the Shi’ite-dominated interior ministry have stormed an Iraqi security company that relies heavily on Sunni ex-military men from the Saddam…
Innat Edson didn’t think it would end this way. Last year, she was making wedding plans. Now, at just 15, she is back at her mother’s cramped, dingy house, nursing a fussing baby…
The United Nations food agency needs -million to feed up to 10-million people in Southern Africa, hit by successive years of drought and some of the world’s highest HIV/Aids…
More than 50 African human rights and civil society groups have written to the continent’s leaders expressing alarm at Sudan’s bid to chair the African Union despite continued…
When Botswana first offered free HIV/Aids treatment, health authorities in one of the world’s most infected countries braced for a rush. It didn’t come. Most people were still…
The United Nations food agency is setting up ”pit stops” providing lifesaving information about Aids to food-aid truck drivers and the communities they pass through in some of…
Private Andries Nhlengethwa jumps from planes and lifts 45kg weights. He also happens to have HIV. The 31-year-old parachutist and bodybuilder is one of the few South African…
Squinting into his binoculars, William Fowlds scans a vast, grassy plane where a busy dairy once stood. The cattle and sheep have given way to herds of grazing antelope. Out of a…
A smuggled video showing hundreds of thousands of poor Zimbabweans on the move after the government tore down their homes as part of an urban renewal project underlined a call…
More than a decade ago, Norta Ibrahim Mudey fled the violence and anarchy of Mogadishu to find sanctuary in a remote fishing village on the far north-eastern coast of Somalia.…
The day Charmaine found out she was pregnant, a doctor told her she was HIV-positive. Devastated, she considered abortion, but opted instead to try an Aids drug called nevirapine…
The African National Congress published a stinging attack on Friday on top United States health officials, accusing them of treating Africans like guinea pigs and telling lies to…
Beneath the surface calm in Côte d’Ivoire, unresolved ethnic, regional, political and religious rivalries still roil after a week of unprecedented violence. The next burst…
Iraqi forces backed by United States soldiers and marines raided mosques on Tuesday in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi and detained a prominent cleric following fierce clashes…
The worst drought in more than a decade is sweeping through Southern Africa, destroying crops, driving up food prices and leaving millions hungry — even as foreign assistance…
If Zimbabwe wants to end its exclusion from the Commonwealth nations’ decision-making councils, it must start by engaging in dialogue with political opponents, the group’s…
