High rates of the most effective type of malaria-fighting drugs sold in three African countries are poor quality — including nearly half the pills sampled in Senegal — raising fears of increased drug resistance that could wipe out the last weapon left to battle a disease that kills 1 million people each year, according to a U.S. report released Monday. Between ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) agreed on Sunday to consider a Senegalese proposal to resettle Haiti's earthquake homeless and possibly create a state for them in Africa. The idea was first floated by Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade who said the history of Haitians as descendants of African slaves gave them the right to a new life on ...

Prominent South Africans including Nelson Mandela's wife are appealing for aid for Haiti's earthquake survivors. Graca Machel, the wife of the former South African president, on Friday urged Africans to donate to the Africa for Haiti Campaign to show gratitude for the ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - Senegal and other African nations should offer victims of Haiti's earthquake the chance to resettle in the continent, possibly in a newly created state of their own, the West African nation has urged. "Africa should offer Haitians the chance to return home. It is their right. There is nothing to haggle about," President Abdoulaye Wade said on ...