A mob angered by rumors that health workers were spreading cholera has killed four people in northern Mozambique. And 12 suspects in the violence were killed later in what a prison official said Tuesday was a fight in jail.

Red Cross officials and police say a mob angered by false rumors that health workers were spreading cholera killed a Red Cross volunteer, two health workers and a policeman in northern Mozambique.

Graca Machel, a Mozambican human rights campaigner and the country’s former first lady, appealed to schools Saturday to take more action to prevent children being kidnapped and sold into prostitution.

Officials say at least 89 people have died in wildfires sweeping through Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland.

At least seven people have been killed by a powerful cyclone that lashed northern and central Mozambique, ripping off roofs and leaving many towns without water or power, government officials said Monday.Cyclone Jokwe, traveling with winds of up to 125...

Madagascar authorities sought to regain contact with southern parts of this Indian Ocean island Monday, a day after a powerful cyclone destroyed homes and caused flooding before heading toward the African mainland.Cyclone Ivan was expected to make...

Text of President Bush at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art on Thursday, as provided by the White House.___I’ve been looking forward to coming to the museum, and there’s an added benefit, and that is, I get to be introduced by my wife on...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:Feb. 18Lubbock (Texas) Avalanche-Journal, on President’s Day, and the President’s office:Many adults remember celebrating the Feb. 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln and the Feb....

HIDDEN HISTORY: The brutality of Portugal’s wars against independence fighters in its African colonies in the 1960s and 1970s was kept secret from Portuguese citizens by dictator Antonio Salazar, who depicted colonial subjects as Portuguese who were...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said Tuesday he would attend an upcoming Europe-Africa summit, ensuring his standoff with Britain will overshadow efforts to forge stronger political and economic ties between the two continents.British Prime Minister...