It went virtually unnoticed (and unreported by this newspaper), but last week a federal court found the government of Iran liable for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

A significant portion of antimalarial drugs in Africa have been illegally diverted from the public sector, where they were intended to be dispensed free of charge in public health facilities, to the private sector.

Drug shortages have become a serious problem across East Africa; if oversight does not improve, donor largesse may worsen the health situation there.

The private sector can and should play an important role in public health, but it remains to be seen whether or not the benefits that have arisen from the AMFm could have been achieved through alternative mechanisms and potentially at lower cost.

If it was indeed al Shabaab that trained the Boko Haram militants, then Somalia has become a training center as well as a safe haven for radical Islamist groups. This new role means that al Shabaab is something more than simply an insurgent group; it is also an enabler in al Qaeda’s "far" war against the West and its allies.

Amnesty’s call for Bush’s arrest was a blatantly partisan act — and it wasn’t the first time the group had done so.

The malaria community has done a great job over the past decade to combat the disease. But this may be about to change.

At the AIDS meeting in Tanzania, the United Statesis berated for generously fighting malaria and AIDS.