In Africa, some Roman Catholic priests have children and nuns counsel patients to use condoms against the scourge of AIDS. Faithful consult medicine men even though the church condemns that as witchcraft.

Pope Benedict XVI will meet with Muslim representatives and women’s rights advocates when he travels to Cameroon and Angola in March on his first papal trip to Africa, the Vatican said Monday.

Company and government officials say America’s KBR has won an engineering and management contract for a $6.4 billion Angolan oil refinery.

A special U.N. representative is preparing for talks with the rebel leader fighting government forces in eastern Congo.

Angola announced Wednesdsay it is mobilizing troops to send to neighboring Congo, heightening fears that the fighting in this central African nation will engulf other countries in the region.

An Angolan government official says his country will send troops to Congo, where at least 250,000 people have been displaced by fighting.

Rebels in Congo are accusing Angola and Zimbabwe of mobilizing troops to fight in Congo in a repeat of a 1998-2002 war that drew in armies from a half-dozen African nations.

Pope Benedict XVI says he will go to Cameroon and Angola on his first visit to Africa as pontiff in March.

The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona’s jet set were among the headliners Monday as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laund

The son of a late French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and 40 other people charged with trafficking arms to war-riven Angola or taking kickbacks will face judges Monday in a long-awaited trial in Paris.