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Zambia asks Mbeki to explain comment on Mwanawasa

LUSAKA - Zambia has demanded that South Africa explain why President Thabo Mbeki announced publicly that Zambian leader Levy Mwanawasa had died, state television reported on Friday. South Africa's Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday ...

Pres. Bush urges Congress to pass AIDS funds

WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to approve funds to fight AIDS in Africa and other countries, and said the issue was high on his agenda for a Group of Eight summit in Japan next week. Members of the U.S. Senate ...

Longtime GOP senator Jesse Helms dies at 86

And he softened his views on AIDS after years of clashes with gay activists, advocating greater federal funding to fight the disease in Africa and elsewhere overseas.

Atlantic sees second tropical storm of 2008

MIAMI - A tropical storm dubbed Bertha has formed in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off Africa's coast and is heading west towards the Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday. The second tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic season, Bertha ...

Women activists detained in Zimbabwe prison

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Two women honored by the United States, Amnesty International and others for braving beatings and arrest to hold peaceful protests against Robert Mugabe are entering their sixth week in detention, putting them among ...