Donors have not yet committed enough money for studies needed to confirm a promising South African trial of a microbicide and to get the product to women.

Kenya on Friday granted the International Criminal Court tax exemptions and immunity from legal challenges that it needs to open an office in the country.

Aid officials expected that number to rise in the four-day attack by Congolese and Rwandan rebels.

A judge will review if a government witness can testify in the trial of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, charged with plotting the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa.

After years of not getting sucked into the messy civil war on land, Somalia’s pirate gangs are taking sides — both sides.

The new president of Nigeria’s electoral commission must organize the next election, but there is no election date, no candidate list and no real list of voters.

Rwandan troops and their rebel allies are said to have killed tens of thousands of members of the Hutu ethnic group, including civilians.

A nationwide strike by public employees has paralyzed hospitals and schools, undercutting major drives to combat AIDS and TB.

The Protection of Information Bill and a plan for a media tribunal have come amid increasing hostility between the governing African National Congress and the press.

A Ponzi scheme has shaken the economy in a nation that has long been an exemplar of stability in West Africa.

Kenya’s new constitution, written to address a flawed system that has exacerbated ethnic rifts, passed overwhelmingly.

South Africa is providing companies with financial help as it tries to take advantage of an opportunity to create jobs and advance economically in the African market.

Some fret that South Africa’s same-sex marriage law has bypassed many of the country’s black citizens.

Increasing violent attacks and the departure of a resettlement agency have threatened a paradise for Somali refugees in Uganda.

With oil and diamonds, Angola is one of the strongest economies in sub-Saharan Africa, and is attracting Portuguese to set up shop there.

After years of living under authoritarian rule, most Guineans welcomed last month’s free election, but some in the African nation defend the way things were.

Rwandan outrage over a report suggesting that its troops might have been responsible for genocide in Congo prompted the United Nations to delay the official release for a month.

The streets of Mogadishu, Somalia’s besieged capital, were finally quiet on Wednesday, after 10 days of heaving fighting that has claimed more than 100 lives.

Protests against rising food prices turned deadly in the capital, Maputo, on Wednesday when the police opened fire on demonstrators.

Negotiations were continuing on the government’s offer to give more than a million public employees pay raises of 7.5 percent, double the inflation rate.

Hundreds of thousands of striking nurses, teachers and other public employees on Tuesday considered the government’s sweetened offer of a 7.5 percent pay raise.

A U.N. report, leaked in draft form last week, accuses Rwandan forces of massacring civilians and possibly committing genocide in Congo years ago.

An e-mail and bulletin warned about rape in a remote Congolese area much earlier than officials originally said.

A minibus rolled over a roadside bomb intended for African Union forces and government personnel on a road north section of the capital, Mogadishu.

As part of an effort to end chronic tardiness, several federal offices in the capital, Abuja, locked out hundreds of who arrived after the 8 a.m. start time.

The reporter, Abdullahi Omar Geddi, 25, was the second journalist killed in the eight days in Somalia.

Doubts about the guilt of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of the the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland are being explored in stage in Edinburgh.

Naomi Campbell appeared at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, on Thursday to testify about a gift of rough diamonds. Her account clashed with that of Mia Farrow, who is expected to testify next week.

Video from Kampala, Uganda, where at least 64 people were killed when bombs exploded Sunday in a synchronized attack on large gatherings of World Cup soccer fans watching the televised final on outdoor screens at a rugby club and an Ethiopian restaurant.