... Horn of Africa Food Up to 9 million people are at risk of famine in the Horn of Africa. Concern is working in Ethiopia, Kenya, Eritrea, and Somalia to stop these people dying and to tackle the crisis underlying cause of endemic poverty. After successive ...

... In Africa, take nothing for granted THE unfolding Darfur disaster shows again how you can take nothing for granted in Africa. Central government has only limited control over its own military, never mind nomadic warlords. The atrocities reflect ancient ...

... Africa's miracle baby Dismissively. Rosita Mabuiango sends her clockwork Sesame Street car to the far end of the straw mat. She takes a brief interest in a green plastic tractor while her mother. Carolina. takes a Huggies wet wipe to a particularly stubborn ...

... Irish aid for Africa's despots countries where corruption is rife and human rights are flagrantly violated. The Irish State, distinguished for calculating all its policy decisions on the scales of value-for-money, continues to hand over great wodges of ...

... South Africa's celebration of democracy Tim Butcher in Pretoria SOUTH AFRICA celebrated a decade of democracy yesterday with a pledge from President Thabo Mbeki never to return to one-party rule. Mr Mbeki, sworn in for a second term as part of the co ...

... of war turns peacemaker Rupert Cornwell in Washington FOR FIVE days at least, the man of war will become a man of peace. President George Bush arrives in Africa today not to issue ultimatums or to rally American troops. Yes, American soldiers may set ...

... the next round of Africa's First World War. But the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is bigger than the 1914-18 war. If you take the area of the DRC and superimpose it on Europe, it stretches from London to Moscow. About 50 million people ...

... war on crime Alphonse Toweh in Monrovia LIBERIA'S Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf took office as Africa's first elected woman president yesterday. She was backed by a strong show of US support and vowed to fight graft and rebuild her country after years of war ...

... brealdng out across Africa Eritrea after two years of bitter trench warfare. In Angola, government INDIAN troops shot and OBSCURED behind the forces ended the long-run- killed five Muslim militants sound and fury of the wars ning civil war virtually over- ...

... descent into anarchy of the Liberian state. Founded and funded by the US, Liberia is yet another sick man of Africa. Unrest slides into civil war and her sons become child soldiers. Outlining the plot of Banks' novel gives no idea of its power. His narrator ...

... 200 troops bound for Africa mission Tom Brady Security Editor THE Army is to send up to 200 troops on a new United Nations peacekeeping mission in Africa, it was learned last night Defence Minister Michael Smith has given the goahead for the troops to ...

... Travel and exploration, South Africa and Brazil The countries appearing regularly in the international topographical sales include South Africa and Brazil In the seventeenth century the Cape of Good Hope was settled by Boers (farmers), later called A ...