All Africa
Will Ethiopia's 'grand' new dam steal Nile waters from Egypt?Africa's largest hydropower project, a new 6,000-megawatt dam on the Blue Nile, has sparked a row between Egypt and Ethiopia.聽But it could increase the overall water flow in the Nile.
Cover StoryAIDS: How South Africa is beating the epidemicAIDS turning point: South Africa is the worst-hit country in the worst-hit region of the epidemic. But the disease is no longer an acute emergency. The spread of infection has slowed sharply and those infected are living close-to-normal lives. Still, an exhausted nation deals with the aftereffects.
AIDS: Orphanage closes its hospice, babies no longer dyingAIDS killed a baby a week during the height of the epidemic at the Cotlands child-care facility in South Africa. But because treatment has improved so much, infected babies aren't being abandoned as much, nor are they dying. The Cotlands has closed its hospice for lack of ill infants.
Al Qaeda-allied suicide team blasts UN compound in MogadishuAl Shabab fighters launch one of worst attacks since being largely driven out of the Somali capitol two years ago. 'We knew it was dangerous here,' says UN spokesman in country.聽
Will 'historic' ceasefire help put Mali back together again?A new deal brokered between Mali's government and ethnic Tuaregs by the EU and UN diplomats along with regional players may be a key first step.
Kenya giving laptops to all first-graders, amid controversyNewly elected Uhuru Kenyatta, with Microsoft's help, wants universal e-literacy for students in this East African nation. Critics call it ill conceived, costly.- Challenge to elite South African schools that segregate by languageCourts will decide whether Fochville High can offer instruction only in Afrikaans, which blacks mostly do not speak.
ICC trials for Kenya's new leaders may shift partly back homeNewly elected president Uhuru Kenyatta and deputy president William Ruto were indicted by the ICC for 2007 election violence. Is Kenya ready to watch the hearings up close?
Zimbabwe election date tussle gets seriousOpposition politicians say President Robert Mugabe is using a constitutional court's call for an early date to achieve an unconstitutional outcome.聽
Is West now looking past Darfur genocide to engage Sudan?President Omar al-Bashir is charged with mass deaths, but he may not last forever. Are Barack Obama and John Kerry starting to count on that? 聽
Quiet Mali town, despite fighting nearby, gathers to honor its renowned mosqueJihadis tore up nearby Timbuktu but left locals here alone to re-mud their place of worship聽鈥撀爐he world's largest mud mosque, recognized by UNESCO.聽
In Nelson Mandela's village of Qunu, prayers and well-wishesThe South African government says the former president is in 'serious but stable condition.'
Britain issues unprecedented apology to colonial-era KenyansIn surprise reversal, UK says it is sorry and will compensate locals for round-up, torture, and harm in 1952 colonial crackdown.
Policing 'blood' diamonds: the watchdog Kimberley Process explained
After sour years, is French influence on the rise in West Africa?From the French intervention in Mali, to French special forces in Niger, to commercial interests and military bases in the region 鈥撀燩aris is flexing its muscles. Ivory Coast is the top relationship.聽
FocusMasai herders appear victims of land deal with Dubai hunting firmTanzania plans to move Maasai families off ancestral land, claiming environmental necessity to protect wildebeest.
FocusEast Africans told to resettle: Are these 'land grabs' or progress?In Ethiopia, a plan known as 'villagization' has freed up vast tracts for foreign corporations and brought a storm over methods of development at the World Bank.
US bounties changes strategy on West African jihadisThe US is offering up to $23 million for information leading to the location of Nigeria's Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau and Al Qaeda operative Mokhtar Belmokhtar.
Is Nelson Mandela too soft on white South Africans? Robert Mugabe says so.In a new documentary, the Zimbabwean president says that Mandela 'was too much of a saint' and takes the famous South African to task for not doing enough for the black majority.
In Ivory Coast, the former ruling party tries to rebuildIvory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo may be on trial for war crimes at The Hague. But that isn't stopping his political party from planning to regain power.