The final betrayal - the battle for peace in Northern Uganda.

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Nyiragongo volcano: jewel or threat?

Report: Despite the visible military activity in the region, tourists continue to come to the Democratic Republic of Congo to hike to the top of Nyiragongo, a very active volcano symbolising destruction to the local population.

Africa Uncovered - Kenya: Horror and Hope

Amidst the mayhem of Kenya's post-election ethnic violence, one group of ethnically-mixed aspiring young journalists from Nairobi's Mathare slum decided to take up cameras instead of knives. Slum TV aimed to project some hope back into their scarred community. Africa Uncovered follows the team at Slum TV as they count down to a public screening and revisits some of the characters they filmed during the violence.

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Ivory Coast: Probo Koala victims hopeless

Over two years after the dumping of deadly chemicals in Abidjan by the Probo Koala, the victims are losing hope and calling for urgent help to alleviate the strange diseases they got.

Jules Dekagnan's wife is complaining of a throat disease and needs about €1000 to have his wife's case examined by doctors. She only received €300 in 2006 and is waiting for miraculous intervention from good-hearted people

Pressure mounts for Zimbabwe

Stalemate in Zimbabwe

Geothermal power: Kenya's potential and prospects

Kenya - Open For Business...

Raila in London

Ethiopia: HIV clubs make sense but lack force

In Ethiopia, due to governmental policy every highschool has an HIV/Aids-clubs exist in all highschools. These clubs organize activities to create awareness among students. Dramas, discussions and information meetings are organized. A good initiative, but teachers complain about resources: the clubs lack budget, facilities and uptodate knowledge to really make the difference in battling the problem of HIV among the youth of the country.

Low-Income Women in Kenya Get Substandard Treatment

In Kenya, low-income women who give birth in public facilities are often verbally abused. They receive inferior medical care, frequently in unsanitary conditions, and they can even be detained for not paying their fees. These and other abuses were detailed in a late 2007 study of public maternity wards across the country. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi.

Commissions of Inquiries are under the spotlight

Slaughter Houses shut

The Kenyan National Commision on Human Rights to reveal names of violence perpetrators

Eldoret Polytechnic: University take over plans hit a snag

WIDE ANGLE | Birth of a Surgeon | PBS

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world's deadliest place to give birth. Each year over a quarter of a million women die in childbirth in the region. But Mozambique is combating high maternal death rates by implementing unconventional programs. In 2004, Mozambique introduced a new health care initiative to train midwives in emergency obstetric care in an attempt to guarantee access to quality medical care during pregnancy and childbirth. The film "Birth of a Surgeon" follows Emilia Cumbane, one of the first midwives-in-training. She performs cesareans and hysterectomies in makeshift operating rooms in rural Mozambique. The film captures one woman's story on the frontlines of improving maternal mortality but it also demonstrates how low-cost, community-based health initiatives are changing the face of public health in Africa. For more information visit http://www.pbs.org/

Africa Uncovered - Mauritania: Fat or Fiction - Part 2

When it comes to the notion of female beauty, Nouakchot to day is a place of contrast to most other world capitals. On these streets it is a fat woman who turns heads - not a thin one.

In Mauritania slim is not 'in' - but is force-feeding a justifiable practice to meet the local beauty standard?

Africa Uncovered - Mauritania - Fat or Fiction

When it comes to the notion of female beauty, Nouakchot to day is a place of contrast to most other world capitals. On these streets it is a fat woman who turns heads - not a thin one. In Mauritania slim is not 'in' - but is force-feeding a justifiable practice to meet the local beauty standard?

Kibaki bans trucks with four axle loads on Kenyan roads

In The Democratic Republic of Congo...former fighters now friendly fisherman

For years, they fought as bitter enemies in one of Africa's deadliest conflicts.

But some former fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo are now working together, making their living as fishermen.

A charity is behind the project, which is aimed at re-integrating them into society.

Sophie Jackson has the story.

Mauritania's political puzzle

The Mauritanian army puts soldiers on the streets of the capital, and the civilian leadership in detention, as it takes power of Mauritanian in a coup. The military junta deposed the government just over a year after country's first democratic elections since independence in the 1960's. The coup leaders promised to hold fresh elections "as soon as possible". Inside story asks: is it a set back for democracy? Or setting the right democratic path after a power struggle at the top?
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