ELDORET, Kenya, Jan 8, 2008 (AFP) - Washington's top Africa envoy and four African former presidents on Tuesday visited this western Kenyan town to meet residents whose lives were devasted in violence sparked by presidential polls last week.

BLANTYRE, Jan 8, 2008 (AFP) - Malawi, one of Africa's poorest countries, is to give civil servants carrying the HIV virus an extra 35 dollars a month to help them improve their nutrition, a top health official said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, Jan 3, 2008 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged her Libyan counterpart here Thursday to promote human rights and meet demands for compensation from the families of terror victims, her spokesman said.

WHITE PLAINS, New York, Jan 11, 2008 (AFP) - Disgraced former athletics star Marion Jones was sentenced Friday to six months in prison for lying about taking steroids in a doping scandal that cost the sprinter her Olympic medals.

HARARE, Jan 12, 2008 (AFP) - Zimbabwe's main opposition party on Saturday vowed a repeat of Kenya's recent election violence if veteran President Robert Mugabe rigs joint presidential and legislative polls due in March.