Children starve in parched southern Madagascar
Foreigners have come to Anjandobo village, a cluster of wooden huts on the desolate red dust of southern Madagascar. They're vaza --...
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Sierra Leone's crises have global reach
When the power went out that night, Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie was operating on his fifth patient of the day in a maternity hospital with a...
New dinosaur species may be a missing link
Before the dig started, it looked like any other patch of dinosaur dirt: gray soil, a few brownish fossilized bones exposed by erosion....
Glorious vision in Kenya's sky melts away
From a tree-shaded plateau facing Mt. Kenya, the worshipers gaze anxiously at its melting ice cap and wonder: Is God dead?
100 held in killings in north Congo
Security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested about 100 armed men blamed for killing dozens of policemen in an attack in...
Southern Africa's elephants: treasured killers
Here's how to pitch this (true) story to Hollywood: Ordinary guy named John, ordinary Sunday, cycling home into a setting sun. Monster roars...
36 dead in Somalia violence
At least 36 people have been killed and scores wounded in three days of fighting in towns across chaotic Somalia, a local human rights group...
Claims in arms case stir up the French
Convicted of profiting from illicit arms sales to Angola, a former French interior minister is roiling the political establishment by...
Nigeria militants declare cease-fire
Nigeria's main militant group declared an indefinite cease-fire Sunday, raising the prospect of peace in the oil-rich Delta region after...
Pope calls for peace and reconciliation in Africa
Pope Benedict XVI ended a three-week Vatican meeting on Africa on Sunday with a call for peace and reconciliation among all people on the...
Fleeing drought in the Horn of Africa
For centuries, Adam Abdi Ibrahim's ancestors herded cattle and goats across an unforgiving landscape in southern Somalia where few others...
For foreign correspondents, one phobia that won't fly
Clackety-clack. Clackety-clack. I pause as I mount the steps of the 737, frowning at the spinning engine.
2 women in Sudan sentenced for wearing pants
Two Sudanese women Thursday were sentenced to 20 lashes and fined for committing an act of indecency by wearing trousers, weeks after a...
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