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Intense rains have disrupted operations at Kenya's only port, delaying the delivery of grain, sugar and coal, while a queue of vessels waiting to offload cargo is building up, its operator said on Monday.

President Obama is sending 100 troops to Uganda to help hunt down the leaders of the feared and brutal insurgency, the Lord's Resistance Army.

Women who use contraception injections double their likelihood that they will contract an HIV infection or transmit it to their male partners according to a new research.

The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda on Friday acquitted two former ministers of genocide charges, making them among the most high-profile officials to be found not guilty of playing key roles in the 1994 slaughter of about 800,000 people.

Agathe Habyarimana, 69. has been a resident of France for seventeen years, and denies any culpability for the genocide

Breast cancer is rising at an alarming rate as reported by researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.

Gunmen killed 36 people at a bar in the city of Gatumba, near the Congolese border on Monday. The proximity to the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo has led Burundian government officials to believe that the killers came from Congo.

Checking in to Lastel hotel means checking out at this corpse hotel.

Researchers say breast and cervical cancers are rising at an alarming rate and the number of new breast cancer cases has increased from about 641,000 cases in 1980 to 1.6 million cases in 2010.

Breast and cervical cancers kill 625,000 women worldwide every year, reported researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.

Science is key to rebuilding earthquake-damaged Haiti, according to a new report.

Breast cancer is rising at an alarming rate as reported by researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.

Breast cancer is on rise and the rate is alarming, said researchers in the first global review of breast and cervical cancer.

The number of breast and cervical cancer fatalities have skyrocketed in developing nations in the last three decades, while they have fallen in wealthier countries, according to an analysis by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Wednesday marks the second day of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday celebrating the end of Ramadan. While most of the festivities were both joyous and pious, in many Muslim nations the holiday was marred with violence and uneasiness. Eid al-Fitr 2011:

El Nino is not only responsible for creating an abnormal warming of ocean waters in the tropical Pacific but it has also influenced ancient civil wars, a new study has found.

When the weather heats up, people get more uncomfortable and perhaps a little testy. But until now, no one has ever accused heat of causing war.

A new study has revealed a stronger evidence for the climate-conflict link, with data showing that tropical countries affected by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation are twice as likely to suffer internal unrest compared to the phenomenon's cooler, wetter counterpart, La Niña.

Civil wars are twice as likely to break out in countries that see severe weather fluctuations because of El Niño, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.

The El Nino climate cycle brings not only high temperatures and dry weather, but also possibly civil wars, a new study claims.Between 1950 and 2004, the risk of civil wars doubled in 90 tropical countries when bit by El Nino every three to seven years, according to a study published in Wednesday's Nature.

The Tanzanian government said it is committed to wiping out sexual abuse and rape of children.