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...

Two-time European champion long distance runner Mo Farah of England and 800 metres world record holder David Rudisha of Kenya Friday joined the growing list of star athletes skipping the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth...

Tyres burn in a street in Maputo, Mozambique after police opened fire on stone-throwing crowds who were protesting rising prices in this impoverished country, 01 Sept...

Price Riots Spread in Mozambique The United States says it will provide $1 billion over the next five years to help fight AIDS in Mozambique, where some 1.5 million people are living with HIV, the...

TUSTIN, Calif., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Vita-Tech International, Inc. has donated 3 1/2 tons of fresh-dated multi-vitamin tablets to under-served populations in Guinea, West Africa. "Nutritional...

This map provided by Main One Cable Co., shows the Main One undersea fiber-optic cable, which extended to Lagos, Nigeria this summer, bringing vastly greater communications capacity to West...

the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO how the global economic situation could impact funding for health programs in Africa and the ability for countries to reach U.N. Millennium...

G8 pledged $22 billion to in July 2009. According to the article, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), which seeks to increase African spending on agriculture to foster...

Washington Post editorial encouraging the U.S. to generously support Pakistan as it recovers from major flooding, states: the "humanitarian interest is heightened by Pakistan's centrality to...

Associated Press reports. The Walikale Civil Association "first sounded the alarm on July 25," in a meeting with the Congolese army and local authorities and first warned the U.N. on July 29,...

health authorities said.The attack came as unions representing over 1 million public servants, who have been on strike since August 18, defer until Monday their final answer on government's latest...

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 reported new protests in two...

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique police fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators on Friday as rioting flared in the capital following two days of protests over high bread prices that saw seven...

A spike in food prices has triggered deadly riots in Mozambique this week, and experts worry other countries that saw such unrest during the last global food crisis in 2008 could be hit...

MAPUTO - Mozambique police fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators on Friday as rioting flared in the capital following two days of protests over high bread prices that saw seven people...

Ghana Stock Exchange All-Share Index retreated 0.2 percent by the 1 p.m. close in Accra to 6,753.1. The following shares rose or fell in sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa. Stock symbols...

MAPUTO, Mozambique — 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...

Kayser — Angola national senior males basketball team will play US on Monday, in the eighth finals of the Turkey World Cup. Angola lost to Australia by 55-76 on Thursday afternoon in Kayseri...

Luanda — Angolan singer Edizila organises Saturday her first show to promote her debut album entitled "Eu e Tu", at Atlântico cinema, in Luanda. In an interview to ANGOP, the artist...

Luanda — More than one thousand Angolan athletes were engaged in various competitions abroad from December 2009 to July this year, Angop learned Wednesday in Luanda. The information was...

Kayseri — The physician of the Angolan national senior males basketball team, Agostinho Matamba, informed on Thursday that the player Olímpio Cipriano is injured and that is why the...

Ndalatando — An Angola's northern Kwanza Norte province man was sentenced to 22 years in jail on Thursday, after the local court found him guilty of having shot dead prosecutor Martinho Lubota...

Kayseri — The Angolan basketball player Divaldo Mbunga on Thursday here said that Angola will engage itself at in game against the United States of America, as part of the eighth finals of the...

Luanda — At least 1,350 new voters registered from July 30 to August 31 this year in Luanda's Ingombota district, under the ongoing national electoral registration update, Angop learned. ...

Luanda — At least 150 fans are travelling on Friday afternoon to Kampala, where Angola's national senior males football team will play Uganda, in a group 10's first round match of the...

Malabo — The Angolan Health minister, José Van-Dúnem, is going to chair on Friday the 60th session of the World Health Organisation for Africa (WHO/AFRO) during the discussion of...

Maputo — This week's riots in Maputo will not prevent Portuguese businesses from investing in Mozambique, according to Telmo Fernandes, managing partner of Market Access, a consultancy firm...

Kuito — The work developed by sectors of justice administration in Bié Province is satisfactory, despite some constraints, considered Thursday in Kuito City the deputy State...

Maputo — Groups of looters attacked stalls in the main markets of the central Mozambican city of Beira on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, according to a report in Friday's issue of...

The matter of MPs choosing to drive rather than fly, at a lesser cost, between Parliament and their constituencies will be examined at a meeting of the multi-party Parliamentary Oversight Authority...

Kissama — The "Nossa Senhora da Muxima" pilgrimage organising committee is expecting a significant rise in the number of the faithful travelling to the Kissama district (Bengo province) shrine....

Maputo — The death toll from the rioting in Maputo and the neighbouring city of Matola on Wednesday and Thursday has now risen to ten, according to Health Minister Ivo Garrido. Speaking at a...

A Western Cape construction worker was seriously injured on Friday when the trench he was working in collapsed, ER24 said. Spokesman Andre Visser said the accident happened at the Delft Day Hospital...

Luanda — The African continent will be in frenetic motion this weekend with the kick-off of the qualifiers for the Africa Nations Cup (CAN2012), set to take place in Gabon and Equatorial...

Maputo — After two days of rioting over price rises, Maputo was mostly calm on Friday, but a few minor disturbances occurred in some outlying neighbourhoods. AIM reporters who drove across the...

Maputo — Despite threats of a third day of rioting, Maputo was calm on Friday, and by mid-morning there was no sign of further disturbances. On Thursday night, there were still barricades of...

Luanda — The music group of Brazilian Rodrigo Lessa is performing Wednesday in Luanda, as part of the celebrations of his country's independence, on September 7. According to a note from...

Luena — Angolan singer Yuri da Cunha will be performing on September 11 in Luena, eastern Moxico province, as part of the celebrations of the province's 93rd anniversary, on September 15. The...

Ndalatando — The minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Afonso Pedro Canga, is expected Friday in northern Kwanza Norte province for a few-hour visit, to check the...

Harare — The 3rd meeting of military inspectors from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) ended Friday in Harare, Zimbabwe, recommending a raise of funds for the organisation. The...

Malanje — Administrators and finances professionals of the districts of the provinces of Bengo, Kwanza Norte and Malange attend since Thursday in this city, a regional seminar on the new State...

Malabo — Angola will host the 62nd session of the World Health Organization Regional Committee for Africa (WHO/AFRO), to be held in 2012, angolan health minister, Jose Van-Dunem, announced...

South African midfielder Steven Pienaar at a training session during the World Cup. Pienaar has warned his South Africa team-mates not to underestimate little Niger when they clash on September 3 in...

Human Rights Watch’s work to curb atrocities perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan rebel group, took a major step forward in May, when the Obama administration agreed to...

Vodacom's M-Pesa mobile phone banking service is all the rage in Kenya, where in 3 years it jumped to 10 million customers in a country of 37 million. But as M-Pesa launches in South Africa, it will...

South Africa has long been reputed to produce some of the world's best auditors. This was given credence when the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Survey for 2009 to 2010 ranks us second...

del.icio.us Thousands of fuel and motor industry employees in South Africa have joined a national public service strike in the country, but many others continue to resist union calls for them to stay...

Mozambique police fired rubber bullets and teargas at demonstrators on Friday as rioting flared in the capital following two days of protests over high bread prices that saw seven people killed and...

David Lekuta Rudisha (right) competes during the 12th IAAF World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium on August 20, 2009 in Berlin, Germany....