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The United States House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to erase from government records the designation of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its leaders as terrorists. (AllAfrica)

Four troops from EUFOR, the European Union force in Chad, were arrested on 7 May by local authorities near the southern town of Moundou. They have not yet been released. (AllAfrica)

The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights have released a report expressing deep concern over the escalating cases of organised violence and torture and the increasing intimidation of medical personnel. (AllAfrica)

Speaking out against the recent stepped up violence between the Sudanese Government's forces and a rebel group, the United Nations and African Union (AU) envoys spearheading efforts to reach a durable political settlement in the war-ravaged Darfur region today underscored the civilian suffering resulting from the fighting. (AllAfrica)

Militants in the Niger Delta say they would only participate in the proposed Niger Delta summit if the Federal Government promises to implement its outcome. (AllAfrica)

President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga will head the top decision-making organ of the grand coalition, according to draft proposal on power-sharing. (AllAfrica)

In many of Africa's towns and villages, smoky kerosene lamps are all that keeps the darkness at bay after sunset. However, kerosene is a dangerous and increasingly expensive source of light for Africans who do not have access to electricity -- about three-quarters of those living on the continent, according to the World Bank. (AllAfrica)

A draft policy document that structures the Grand Coalition Government and outlines how it will work has put President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga at the top of a six-tier arrangement. (AllAfrica)

The Morgan Tsvangirai MDC has dumped President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa as the principal mediator of the crisis in Zimbabwe, saying they no longer have confidence in his mediation efforts. (AllAfrica)

The need to give agriculture top billing on governmental "to do" lists has been highlighted at a telephone briefing to discuss the current food crisis as it affects Africa. (AllAfrica)

Mozambique's Deputy Minister of Mineral Resources, Abdul Razak, on Friday reiterated the government's commitment to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and outlined the steps it will take during the rest of this year to set up its EITI participation. (AllAfrica)

Hunger is giving a brutal edge to the alleged work of militias implementing Operation Mavhoterapapi (Who did you vote for?), a campaign launched by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government in the wake of the ruling party's loss of its parliamentary majority for the first time since independence in 1980. (AllAfrica)

At least 20,000 people have fled their homes near the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, after fighting between the army and rebels, officials said on 9 May. (AllAfrica)

The Central African Republic is striving to turn the page on decades of armed violence linked to mutinies, coups and attempted coups. Hundreds of thousands of civilians remain displaced, many of them unable, or too afraid, to farm their land. This is an overview of the various armed groups, government security forces and international military missions in the country. (AllAfrica)

Unidentified gunmen killed an official of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Kenya's northwestern town of Lokichoggio on 7 May, in what the agency has described as the first killing of a WFP aid worker in the relief hub for Southern Sudan. (AllAfrica)

After years of delays linked to instability in strife-torn Casamance, the government finally launched a landmine clearance programme in the region in February 2008, but lack of adherence to the 2004 peace accord is hampering progress. (AllAfrica)

Following an hour of heated debate at the joint Chamber of the National Legislature, the House of Representatives Thursday passed into law an act seeking to establish The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC). But Maryland County Representative Boffa Chambers has filed a motion of reconciliation. (AllAfrica)

As retired army general Charles Julu and Col. Andrew Dorbor go with a not guilty verdict on treason charges, a pro-democracy campaigner has called on the two men to file a lawsuit against the government of Liberia for damages. (AllAfrica)

POLICE yesterday arrested the editor of the Standard, Davison Maruziva, on allegations of publishing statements deemed prejudicial to the state and contempt of court after publishing an opinion article by MDC leader Arthur Mutambara lambasting a ruling of the High Court last month on the delayed release of the March 29 presidential election results. (AllAfrica)

"We do not have any one way of dealing with Zimbabwe," said the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s acting director for the African department Benedict Christensen last month. (AllAfrica)

The Mineworkers Union of Namibia has given Skorpion Zinc Mine notice of an industrial stayaway effective today at midnight. (AllAfrica)

President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday congratulated the newly appointed President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, saying that this would further enhance relations and strategic partnership between the two countries. (AllAfrica)

GOVERNMENT will use K13.6 billion the Task Force on Corruption has earned from the sale of seized properties to build maternity wards at various health centres countrywide. (AllAfrica)

The Government yesterday described Pemba elders' demand for secession as treason, comparing it with what took place in the Comoros recently. (AllAfrica)

SA's rapid pace of economic growth over the past three years was well above a sustainable level of about 3,5%, a team of international experts said yesterday. (AllAfrica)

THE Senate, yesterday, turned down the National Health Bill facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Health with funds from the N300 million unspent 2007 budget of the Ministry. (AllAfrica)

THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party said on Thursday that it is still not planning to participate in a presidential run-off election against President Robert Mugabe. (AllAfrica)

Tanzanian police in collaboration with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) security have launched a manhunt for a controversial protected witness who mysteriously disappeared on Tuesday from a safe house in Arusha. (AllAfrica)

Less than 48 hours to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag off of the governorship campaign of Chief Timipre Sylva in the ordered re-run election in Bayelsa State, the state secretariat was in the early hours of yesterday attacked with explosives suspected to be dynamites. (AllAfrica)

The prevalence of HIV/Aids among women and girls involved in commercial sex in Kampala is on the rise. (AllAfrica)

Assets worth nearly $60m stolen under former President Chiluba have been recovered, Zambia's government says. (BBC News)