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SABC News There is no end in sight to the bus crisis in Durban. The whole fleet that services the city has been grounded after the Remant Alton bus company fired all its drivers. It accused the more than 800 workers of having embarked on an illegal strike. The workers are demanding to be employed by the municipality and not the bus company. Talks between the company and the SA Transport and Allied Workers Union were deadlocked two days ago. The Commission for Reconciliation, Mediation and Arbitration intervened but still no solution has been found.

Ethiopian Review NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — After nearly 20 years of violent chaos, Islamic extremism and failed peace talks, impoverished Somalia might seem to have hit rock-bottom. But things are getting worse. The crisis is exceeding even the direst scenarios laid out nearly two years ago, when troops from neighboring Ethiopia arrived to oust a radical Islamic militia and support the Western-backed government.

Malawi is one of the countries worst affected by AIDS where at least seven per cent of the total population has been infected by the deadly virus. Al Jazeera's Maryam Namazee reports on why the Malawi government believes they have reduced AIDS-related deaths