• UN Declares End of Somalia Famine
  
  FAO director credits rain, improved harvest and enormous humanitarian response Read more...

• Ugandans Invest in Trees, For Profit, Conservation
  
  An aerial view of a settlement in Mabira Forest Reserve, 55km
  (34 miles) east of the capital Kampala, April 21, 2007.
  Wealthy investors in Uganda are taking advantage of a new money-making opportunity investing in trees. Trees have become an attractive investment because of the rising cost of timber and the allure of carbon credits. The Ugandan government sees these so-called "tree banks" as a means to combat deforestation. Read more...
   

• Uganda Government Defies Parliament, Signs Oil Agreements
  Uganda has signed two oil production agreements with an Anglo-Irish firm, Tullow oil. The agreements allow the company to finalize a long-delayed $2.9 billion asset sale to France’s Total and China’s China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC). Read more...
   

• Mandela’s Chef Publishes Cook Book on Ukutya Kwasekhaya, Home Food
  
  Nelson Mandela's personal cook Xoliswa
  Ndoyiya poses in Johannesburg after the
  release of her cookbook entitled "Ukutya
  Kwasekhaya: Tastes from Nelson Mandela's
  Kitchen" featuring the former South African
  President's favourite food, (File December
  14, 2011).
  Have you ever wondered what’s being served in the kitchens of some of the world’s most prestigious people? Ever wanted to have dinner with a president?  Well South Africans may not be breaking bread with Nelson Mandela these days, but they now have the secrets of his favorite recipes. Read more...
   

• Aid Groups Ask US to Consider Cross-Border Aid Effort in Sudan
  
  Relief food of the World Food Program is offloaded in Pibor,
  South Sudan, Jan 12, 2012.
  A coalition of human rights groups Thursday has appealed to the Obama administration to lead a cross-border aid operation into South Sudan to deliver much-needed food and medicine to the people of war-torn South Kordofan and Blue Nile states. Read more...
   

• Aborigines' complex role in Australia
  
  An Aboriginal man performs a smoke cleansing ceremony
  on the Parliament lawns, Canberra on February 13, 2008
  (CNN) -- Images beamed around the world last week of unruly and provocative protests by indigenous Australians projected a portrait of an angry and disenfranchised group. Read more...
   

• Protests shrouded in secrecy
  
  As U.N. officials debate measures against the violence in Syria, individuals there are living it. Many protest in nightly rituals -- small, exhilarating stands for freedom. Read more... | CLAIMS OF TORTURED CHILDREN
   

• Men sentenced to 18 years for slaying S. African lesbian
  
  Murder motivated by hate in South Africa
  (CNN) -- Gay rights advocates in South Africa hailed a judge's sentencing of four men to 18 years each in prison for brutally slaying a 19-year-old lesbian. Read more...
   

• Hackers release private FBI call about hackers
  
  FBI & Scotland Yard phone call hacked
  (CNN) -- The loose organization of hackers known as Anonymous released Friday a recording of a telephone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard that it said it recorded surreptitiously. Read more...
   

• U.S. accuses Sudan of bombing civillians
  
  Two bombs landed inside the compound in South Kordofan,
  but there were no injuries, says the group that runs the school
  (CNN) -- The United States accused Sudan of targeting civilians in recent airstrikes, including one that destroyed a Bible school in South Kordofan, an oil-rich Sudanese province that borders the newly-created independent country of South Sudan. Read more...
   

• Johnson Sirleaf’s Second Term Focuses On Youth, Reconciliation
  
  MRS. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia’s and Africa’s...Read more...

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