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In battle against AIDS in Africa, treating the sick more complicated than handing out pills

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) _ Aid workers, pharmaceutical companies and donors have made drugs available to a small number of African AIDS patients, but as new programs take root, the lack of trained doctors and facilities are becoming the biggest barriers to care.

Many of the AIDS experts in Africa gathered to discuss their successes and failures at the 13th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa, which wraps up Friday in Nairobi.

Liberia’s president invites rebels to move to capital

WASHINGTON (AP) _ American troops have started pulling out of the peacekeeping mission in Liberia, defense officials said Monday.

Two of three ships in a U.S. amphibious assault group left waters off Liberia’s shore during the weekend, and the last one is expected to pull out midweek as the United Nations takes over the peacekeeping mission.

The U.S. departure will mark the end of deployment that the Bush administration ordered only hesitantly _ and then limited in time and size _ partly because the armed forces are stretched thin by the global war on terror and the campaign to topple Iraq’s Saddam Hussein.

Impoverished Nigeria joins space age with Russia

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) _ In a fiery liftoff from northwestern Russia, a Nigerian satellite blasted into orbit aboard a red-tipped rocket, propelling one of the poorest nations on Earth into space for the first time.

Millions of Nigerians crowded around television sets to glimpse the early morning launch, broadcast live on state television.

``It makes me proud to be a Nigerian,’’ said Prosper Sunday, a 27-year-old security guard in the commercial apital, Lagos. ``It shows our nation is progressing. We’ve joined the space age.’’

Opposition leader returns to Congo, refuses to join power-sharing

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) _ Veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi returned to Congo’s capital Sunday after two years in exile, saying he would not participate in a power-sharing government but would help pave the way for elections after nearly five years of war.

Thousands turned out to welcome Tshisekedi, singing and dancing in the streets of Kinshasa.

``I bring for the people and the entire Congolese political establishment a message of love, a message of reconciliation, a message of harmony, a message of unity,’’ Tshisekedi, sporting a black beret, said upon his arrival from South Africa, where he spent most of his time in exile.

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