War, poverty and overpopulation have left up to two thirds of Burundians facing chronic food shortages
Reports of beatings, intimidation and extortion in tiny southeast African country have raised fears of increasing political repression ahead of May elections
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
At his burial on Sunday, South African icon will be mourned as one of world's greatest statesmen, and in remote village near his homeland in Eastern Cape, he will be grieved as royalty
South Africans mourn and honor Nelson Mandela in South Africa.
Widespread brutality has turned a political conflict into a human rights catastrophe
No stranger to violent power grabs, Central African Republic has seen a proliferation of widespread human rights abuses since the March 2013 coup led by an alliance of rebels, foreign mercenaries and criminals
Experts say all the elements exist to attract militants who are looking to set up shop, hide, or hijack the country's increasingly sectarian conflict
Fledgling government made up of former warlords faces enormous task of taming lifelong rebels with new concept
Country’s artisans turn spent shell and bullet casings into jewelry encountering ever increasing demand for their works
Rights organization mentions 'unprecedented' levels of gang rapes, torture, executions and recruitment of thousands of child soldiers
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir reaffirm their commitment to peace, but make no progress over borders, contested territory, trade and oil
Demonstrations over rising fuel costs present most serious threat to Bashir government since military takeover in '89
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