Before the recent unrest in Kenya, America's top diplomat to Africa was already busy. Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, has tried to hold together fragile peace agreements in southern Sudan and Africa's Great Lakes region, while keeping an eye on Islamic militants in Somalia and the continued decline of Zimbabwe. An acolyte of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from their days together at Stanford—where Frazer wrote her dissertation on military-civilian relationships in the Kenyan government—Frazer recently spoke with NEWSWEEK's Jason McLure in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: You've said that recent events in Kenya have amounted to ethnic cleansing. Are you concerned that the country could spiral into a Rwanda-type genocide? Jendayi Frazer: No. I was there about Jan. 5. The attacks against the Kikuyu population in the Rift Valley were intended not to kill them, based on what the victims themselves were saying. Rather, they wer...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- It's time for Americans to look beyond their borders, superstar Texas preacher T.D. Jakes said Thursday as he prepared to hold his trademark Megafest in Johannesburg, South Africa -- outside the U.S. for the first time. The best-selling pastor of Dallas megachurch The Potter's House is throwing his signature event -- part religious festival, part self-help fair, part gospel concert -- at a convention center near Soweto this weekend. Jakes debuted the event in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2004 and has drawn hundreds of thousands of people over the years. He cited the global economic meltdown sparked by America's credit crisis and the September 11 terror attacks as examples of why Americans need to pay more attention to the world and their role in it. "We can no longer live in corners and just care about ourselves," he told The Associated Press. "Americans are becoming increasingly global-minded. If there were anything positive that ...

The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg. The World Health Organization says the disease appears to be a form of hemorrhagic fever. It says tests have proved negative for Ebola, Lassa fever, Rift Valley fever, Marburg fever and other main types of hemorrhagic fever. WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl says the first death on Sept. 13 was a tour guide who had fallen ill in Zambia before being evacuated to South Africa. Two further deaths on Sept. 30 and Oct. 4. involved a paramedic and a nurse who treated the woman. Hartl said Friday that 121 people are being monitored and WHO hopes to receive further test results by Sunday.