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HEALTH-SOUTH SUDAN: Welcome New Attention to Maternal Care By Skye Wheeler JUBA - A vast pregnancy has swollen the tiny woman walking South Sudan's shining new maternity ward clutching two pieces of paper stapled together. She looks no more than 16, wide-eyed with recent pain. MORE >>
AGRICULTURE-CHAD: Farmers, Herders Collide In Southern Refugee Camps By David Axe GORE - Clarisse Larlombaye was nearly ruined when a herd of cows got into her rice field one night. The tiny 900-square-meter plot, outside the U.N.-run Gondje refugee camp in lush southern Chad is the sole source of income for Larlombaye and the two other Central African refugees she shares it with. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-CHAD: Peacekeepers Try To Tread Lightly By David Axe IRIBA - Polish army Lieutenant Colonel Marc Gryga didn’t realize he was planning on building his country’s major base here in eastern Chad on top of a cemetery. "It didn’t look like any cemetery you see in the United States or Europe," he says, referring to absence of headstones. MORE >>
SUDAN: Cracks In North-South Peace Deal By Skye Wheeler JUBA - Nyandeng Akot rushed out of the rude shelter of thatch and plastic sheeting pinned against the side of a tree with sticks. Grabbing a passing aid worker's arm, she said she has nothing except the four children that she grabbed when she began running from renewed fighting in Sudan's Abyei area a month ago. MORE >>
CHAD: European Force Sticks to Mandate Under Early Pressure By David Axe N'DJAMENA - The European Union’s first major overseas military deployment -- to the impoverished central African nation of Chad -- is caught in a war of words between the country’s president and tenacious rebel groups operating on Chad’s arid border with Sudan. MORE >>
DR CONGO: With Rebel Leader's Indictment, a Tentative Step to Accountability By Michael Deibert JOHANNESBURG - The indictment against a militia leader whose alleged abuses span the Democratic Republic of Congo's war-ravaged east was finally made public at the end of April, almost two years after being delivered under seal to war crimes prosecutors. MORE >>
HEALTH-DR CONGO: Water Everywhere, But Is It Safe To Drink? By Michael Deibert KINSHASA - The rain falls in battering sheets, rolling eastward along the Congo River through Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is midday, but the sky turns black and soon the potholed streets of this decrepit yet vibrant metropolis are filled with pond-sized puddles, many of them larger than the cars that traverse them. MORE >>
Q&A: "Between Implementation and Planning, There Is a Disconnect" By Interview with Washington Ochola NAIROBI - Accounting for about a third of the gross domestic product in sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture clearly plays a significant role on the continent. But, figures only tell part of the story. A review of Africa produced under the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) notes that agriculture is also "woven into the fabric of most societies and cultures in the region." MORE >>
POLITICS-DRC: Cautious Calm Settles Over War-Scarred Ituri Region By Michael Deibert BOGORO - Wading through the chest-high grass outside of this hamlet in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mathieu Nyakufa gestures to the bones -- still bleaching in the sun -- of those who have been lost to the country's wars. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Failure To Renew DRC Expert's Mandate Draws Criticism By Michael Deibert KINSHASA - The decision of the United Nations Human Rights Council not to renew the mandate of its independent expert on human rights for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has met with fierce criticism from a leading human rights organisation. MORE >>
POLITICS-DRC: In a Governmental Vacuum, Yearnings for a Lost Empire By Michael Deibert MATADI, Western DRC - On a broad hillside high above the meandering flow of the Mpozo River, a handful of policemen guard a ruin. MORE >>
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