Hannah McNeish

Recent studies indicate Africa's little, and little-known, country of Burundi is the hungriest place on earth.

Reports of beatings, intimidation and extortion in the tiny southeast African country of Burundi have raised fears of increasing political repression

Crocodiles have all but disappeared from Lake Tanganyika's shores after 12 years of civil war and continued hunger, but a former charity worker provides safe haven

New company - F3 Life - is offering cash for conservation measures in effort to give farmers better borrowing terms, while teaching them how to protect fertile soils and ensure sustainability

Thousands are enduring brutal conditions as they seek to escape the violence sweeping South Sudan

Country's second-largest ethnic group, the Nuer, is caught in violent political struggle between forces loyal to President Kiir, who comes from majority Dinka tribe, and his arch-enemy Riek Machar, from Nuer

As violence turns whole communities against one another, locals struggle to bury the dead littering the streets

Alleged coup attempt, ensuing violence expose animosity between Dinka and Nuer - country’s two main ethnic groups

Local people attribute highly unseasonal recent rains to Nelson Mandela's death, as in his Xhosa culture rains before funeral mean heavens are preparing to greet great man

Millions of people will watch funeral Sunday as South Africa's first black president and a champion of human rights is laid to rest at his boyhood village