First, violence rocks Mali, Uganda and South Sudan as rebels, mobs and tribes clash. Next, as candidates in Senegal compete to keep the President from a controversial third term, we look back at Abdoulaye Wade's 11 years in power. Finally, football fever once again hits the continent with the Africa Cup of Nations.
The withdrawal of US troops from Iraq left thousands of mercenaries from Uganda out of work. Now many of them have traded in their Pentagon paycheques for ones from the US State department. Meanwhile, four years after the murder of a French aid worker in Burundi, her sister is fighting to find out just how she died. Finally, a 75-year-old from Senegal proves it's never too late to release your first album.
After all night talks - success. Delegates from 194 countries and the European Union at the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban finally hammered out a deal at the weekend to replace the Kyoto Protocol. The carbon-reducing pact is due to expire in 2012 and there had been fears that a new accord would not be made. However, a new plan is under way, meaning a new agreement could be in place and operational by 2020.
After a spate of foreigners being kidnapped on its land, Kenya has sent troops to southern Somalia. Is this the end of a tacit understanding between Nairobi and al-Shabab? Also, in a rare intervention on African soil, US military advisers are being sent to Uganda to fight the Lord's Resistance Army. Finally, we introduce you to the continent's newest sweetheart: Afro-funk star Sia Tolno.
The World Food Programme Wednesday airlifted 10 tonnes of food and supplies to Mogadishu, capital of hunger-stricken Somalia, where a prolonged drought and political instability have pushed millions to the brink of starvation.
The UN hoped to begin its first food airlift to famine-stricken Somalia on Wednesday, after bureaucratic hurdles in Kenya postponed the planned start earlier this week. The East African region is suffering its worst drought in 60 years.
A UN spokeswoman said on Tuesday that some areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda are seeing "one of the driest years since 1950/51," due to two consecutive years of low rainfall.
In Sudan, north and south continue to clash causing one hundred thousand to flee the border town of Abeyei.
Uganda had long been seen as a sucess story in the fight against AIDS. But thirty years after the disease first broke, AIDS in Uganda is back on the rise. And we'll take a look at some of the best preserved cave paintings in Africa, over five thousand years old.
The Ebola virus killed a 12-year-old girl in Uganda earlier in May, health officials said Saturday, confirming the first outbreak of the fast-spreading and fatal disease in Uganda in four years.
Deadly riots broke out in Kampala on Friday over the brutal arrest of opposition leader Kizza Besigye, marking the first time that the anti-government movement reaches the country's capital.
