The Independent Rainforest treaty 'fatally flawed' | A vital safeguard to protect the world's rainforests from being cut down has been dropped from a global deforestation treaty due to be signed at the climate summit in Copenhagen in December. | Under... (photo: AP / Greenpeace, Daniel Beltra/HO)
Al Jazeera Atrocities haunt DRC child soldiers | Militia brigades abducting children and forcing them to become soldiers, porters and sex slaves is a huge problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo. | In the last few months, fighting between the&... (photo: AP / Zohra Bensemra) AfricaCongoHuman RightsPhotosWar
The Australian Congo farm deal fires new Boer trek | THOUSANDS of white South African farmers are resettling in Africa's most inhospitable nations in a migration that recalls the 19th century Great Trek by Afrikaner Boers... (photo: WN / Eteh) AfricaCongoEconomyFarmingPhotos
BBC News Uganda rebukes Somali Islamists | Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has said Somali Islamists will "pay" if they attack Uganda's capital, Kampala. | He spoke after a commander of the Somali Is... (photo: WN / Eteh) AfricaIslamistsPhotosSomaliUganda
