Zambia's vice president and 10 government ministers are to boycott a special ruling party congress meeting called to extend President Frederick Chiluba's rule.

Six workers for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been killed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the organisation says.

The Health Ministry of the Somali Transitional Government has currently undertaken a health program aimed at orientating the public towards the dangers of AIDS for the human being.

COSATU’s Central Executive Committee today, at its scheduled meeting of 24-26 April, discussed the serious implications of recent allegations made by the Minister of Safety and Security in connection with alleged threats to the safety of the President, and its linkage to processes of contestation over political leadership
positions in the ANC.

Reverend Leon H. Sullivan, convener of the 6th African-African American Summit and world leader on Africa and related issues has succumbed to leukemia, announced his daughter, Hope Sullivan Rose.