AFP - South Africa's MTN, the continent's largest cellphone firm, said it would launch a second network in Iran in August, reaching 31 million subscribers by 2015.

Nine athletes from Africa and Asia have gone missing at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, police say.

AP - President Bush welcomed Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to the White House on Tuesday, calling Africa's first democratically elected female head of state "a pioneer."

Denise Royal - AHN Staff Writer Washington D.C. (AHN) – Liberia’s new president is in Washington, D.C. to meet with President Bush. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is expected to make a plea for aid from the U.S. Sirleaf is Africa’s first elected female leader as well as a...

Matthew Borghese - AHN Staff Writer Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A meeting between the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, U.S. European Command and U.S. Naval Forces Europe is underway to discuss "Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of Guinea." With participants from 11 African nations,...

AP - Seven African leaders reviewed efforts to restore peace in Somalia and Uganda and attempts to resolve a festering border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia Monday.

Hector Duarte Jr. - AHN Staff Reporter Madrid, Spain (AHN) – Microsoft launches legal action against 100 phishing gangs based throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The company says by the end of March, 53 cases will have begun and all 100 will have been filed by the end of...

Reuters - Some 9 million children in Africa have lost a mother to AIDS, British charity Save the Children said Monday, calling on donors to sharply increase aid to meet their needs.

The Christian Science Monitor - The African National Congress (ANC), the party of Nelson Mandela, which was so instrumental in overthrowing apartheid, is facing the most severe challenges yet to its decade-long dominance of South African politics and to its vaunted unity. But that, many observers say, is good news for democracy's evolution in a nation that wields so much influence across the rest of Africa.

Phishing gangs in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are being targeted by software giant Microsoft.

Reuters - Drought, poverty, war, pollution and chaotic urban growth are preventing African governments from supplying clean water to their people, United Nations officials said on Sunday.

AP - The Florida Panthers are still fighting to keep their slim playoff hopes alive. Joe Nieuwendyk helped the Panthers pick up two more points in the standings Saturday night, scoring the only shootout goal in Florida's 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals.

Danielle George - AHN Staff Reporter Pretoria, South Africa (AHN) - In a crass and tragic slip of judgment, an employee of South Africa's blood service tells a student that she is HIV positive in order to see how she would react. The 19-year old student was hysterical, "I was utterly shocked...

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - Liberia formally requests that Nigeria extradite its former president, Charles Taylor. A spokeswoman for Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says he will bring up the request with other leaders in Africa. BBC News reports Taylor went into exile in...

AP - David Gilmour was midway through finishing his first solo project in more than two decades when he got a buzz from Bob Geldof — would he mind reuniting with fellow Pink Floyd alumnus Roger Waters for a momentous concert to raise awareness of poverty in Africa.

Reuters - World leaders have their faults, former South Africa President Nelson Mandela said on Thursday, regaling the cast of an Oscar-winning gangster movie with tales of his own teenage years as a pig thief.

Reuters - The deadly bird flu virus, which has hit Asia, Europe and Africa, may spread to the United States late this year and risks mutating dangerously there, Russia's top animal and plant health inspector said on Thursday.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Lagos, Nigeria (AHN) - A humanitarian group is urging U.S. drugmaker Abbot Laboratories Inc. to make a new HIV drug accessible in developing countries, especially Africa. The relief organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, says a new formulation of Abbot's...

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Lagos, Nigeria (AHN) - A humanitarian group is urging U.S. drugmaker Abbot Laboratories Inc. to make a new HIV drug accessible in developing countries, especially Africa. The relief organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres, says a new formulation of Abbot's...

Reuters - A humanitarian group urged U.S. drugmaker Abbot Laboratories Inc. on Wednesday to make a new HIV drug accessible in developing countries, especially Africa.