PRETORIA, South Africa — When the Mohau children’s home opened in 1997, orphans with AIDS died every other day. But these days, not one child has been lost in seven years — and as they age with the help of drugs they face the teen complexities of dating and sex.

JOHANNESBURG — The U.S. Embassy in Lesotho says a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in the southern African country was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt.

South African unions suspend civil service strike after 20 days

Medical agency: Gunmen fire on plane with international aid workers landing in east Congo

South African president calls for talks to end nationwide civil servants’ strike in 2nd week

Rwanda threatens to withdraw peacekeepers over UN report implicating Rwanda in Congo genocide

JOHANNESBURG — Rwanda has threatened to withdraw its troops from United Nations peacekeeping operations if the world body publishes a report accusing the Rwandan army of committing possible genocide in Congo in the 1990s, Rwanda’s foreign minister says in a letter sent to the U.N.

UN draft report: Rwandan army attacks on refugees in Congo in the 1990s could be genocide

UN draft report: Rwandan army attacks on Hutu refugees in Congo in the 1990s could be genocide

South African labor leader: Mandela’s house was bugged during tumultuous period for ANC

South African police ordered not to join strike that has hit hospitals, schools nationwide

In South Africa, doctors and activists worry about impact of strike on AIDS patients

Gordimer: freedom of expression threatened in S.Africa, calls on other writers to speak out

4 executed in Equatorial Guinea coup plot; opposition calls them political assassinations

JOHANNESBURG — Equatorial Guinea’s government on Tuesday defended the execution of four alleged coup plotters just an hour after they were condemned in a case that Amnesty International called a “pretense of justice.”

Zimbabwe’s president says no more concessions with the coalition until sanctions are abolished

Volunteers, soldiers help at S.African hospitals as nationwide strike hits government services

Civil servants’ union calls a strike in South Africa, protests for higher wages start slow

At regional African summit, activists call for independent probe into killing in Congo

Zimbabwe: Disputed appointment of governors resolved ahead of the southern African summit

Norway pledges to work for democratic reform in Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarchy

S. Africa’s ruling party says special tribunal for journalists needed to ‘punish’ bad acts

South Africa recalls ambassador in Rwanda for consultations before elections next week

JOHANNESBURG — The foreign ministry says it has recalled South Africa’s ambassador to Rwanda for consultations surrounding the central African country’s elections next week.

Zimbabwe summons Western diplomats on Mugabe speech walkout; US, Europeans refuse to apologize

Emotional, angry Zimbabwean President Mugabe attacks West at sister’s burial

Chilean-American author Dorfman: former political foes must to show remorse about wrong acts

Zimbabwean president’s sister Sabina, Mugabe’s closest ally, confidante, dies in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwean president’s sister dies

HARARE, Zimbabwe — The party of Zimbabwe’s president says his sister Sabina Mugabe — a former lawmaker and one of his closest allies — died after a long battle with illness. She was 76.