The executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Michel Kazatchkine, sat down with IRIN/PlusNews at the launch of the organization's 2010 report, where he answered some hard questions on what may be a turning point in HIV/AIDS funding. […]

The United Nations refugee agency today expressed its deep concern for the safety of more than 8,000 people trapped in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, by clashes which have uprooted more than 100,000 people since the start of the year. […]

The United Nations today started to airlift urgent food aid for tens of thousands of people who have fled ethnic violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and are seeking refuge in neighbouring Republic of Congo (ROC). […]

ZANU PF's new secretary for information and publicity, Rugare Gumbo, has reportedly sharply criticised President Robert Mugabe over who the most senior party official in the Midlands province should be as he battles to displace bitter rival Emmerson Mnangagwa as the political titan of the deeply-divided region. […]

FINANCE minister Tendai Biti yesterday distributed US$100 million part of the International Monetary Fund's US$510 million Special Drawing Rights (SDR) funds received last year for infrastructural development. […]

In an attempt to deal with a growing influx of migrants, authorities in Somalia's autonomous region of Puntland are adopting new measures to stop people from undertaking the hazardous journey to Yemen, officials said. […]

Government troops - the FARDC - in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are to blame for much of the epidemic of sexual violence in the east of the country, according to US and UN reports detailing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity by various groups there. […]

A high-level bilateral meeting about the booing of senior ANC leaders - including Julius Malema - ended amicably with an apology from the communists and President Jacob Zuma admitting to "mistakes" on both sides. […]

PRIME Minister Nahas Angula yesterday reintroduced a bill to amend the Namibian Constitution in the National Assembly. […]

In order for Africa to be liberated from hunger and unemployment among its youths, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) yesterday advised the continent to embrace modern method of farming. […]