The 22 people who are taking their former employer to court for having been tested for HIV without their consent, wants to be compensated for the damage they suffered, said Linda Dumba Chicalu, project lawyer at the Legal Assistance Centre's

The national rugby team, the Welwitschias, followed their disappointing 13-13 draw in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with a quality and dominant 54-14 win at home in the return leg last week.

HEALTH Minister Dr Richard Kamwi has categorically denied that HIV-positive women are "systematically coerced" to be sterilised at State hospitals.

Langer Heinrich will receive a boost of N$515 million from its parent company, Paladin Energy, for its third expansion plans, said Wyatt Buck, general manager of operations at the mine.

The City of Windhoek said residents should use electricity wisely as they will pay more since the implementation of Time Of Use (TOU) tariffs took effect this week.

Calm has returned to Karan and Hwl-wadag district in the Somali capital Mogadishu where yesterday's clashes killed more in the capital.

Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen court has carried out amputation on a man for stealing cow in Gandabe village near Merka town in Lower Shabelle region, witnesses and officials said on Friday.

Few seem to notice but what is happening in Somalia could jeopardise the stability and security of the whole region. Al Shabaab, an Islamist youth group, have overrun most of southern Somalia and are just a few blocks away from

Duho Artan, a Somali mother, one of the parents whose children are detained in Libyan jails has Friday requested from the both Libya and Somali government to release their children and return to their country.

At least 7 people have been killed and more than 30 others have been injured after clashes between the government soldiers and the Islamist forces started in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu, officials told Shabelle radio on Thursday.

Male circumcision has become an important factor in the spread of HIV in Tanzania, health officials have said, naming regions where it is not practised as the worst affected by the pandemic.

A law against female circumcision will soon be enacted, President Yoweri Museveni has said.

Gayle Smith, a senior foreign policy adviser to President Obama and senior director for relief, stabilization and development at the National Security Council, addressed the closing plenary of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria's annual conference in

Although some countries within East Africa and the Horn region have scaled up their influenza A (H1N1) contingency plans, overall pandemic preparedness remains "relatively inactive", a UN agency has said, as the first cases were reported in Ethiopia, Kenya and

A day ahead of this year's African Union summit in Libya, the 11th meeting of the forum of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) took place in the sweltering seaside town of Sirte. Reports emerging from those who attended threw

Culture minister, Rosa Cruz e Silva, travels to Algiers City, Algeria, leading a delegation from the sector to participate in the Pan-African Culture Festival.

One of Sierra Leone's most renowned private security companies, G4S, is currently rejuvenating into international standards to ensure credible services are delivered to their numerous customers.

World Health Organization, WHO, regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Gomes Sambo has urged countries in the region to be extra vigilant and strengthen their disease surveillance to ensure prompt detection and response to the pandemic H1N1 2009.

Program manager of maternal child health in the ministry of health and sanitation has confirmed that Polio viruses are common in children under the age of five.

Directorate of disease prevention and control (DPC) in the ministry of health and sanitation has concluded a one-day sensitization workshop on the Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic, targeting airport and immigration officers and ports health staff.