• Rwandan Involvement and Rebel Advance Makes Stepped Up UN Action Essential, Says Congo Ambassador
• Libya hits out at West in "AIDS plot" case
• EU's Solana condemns RDCongo unrest, warns neighbours
• Somali skirmish kills five
• UN: Two South African blue helmets are dead
• Bones of Liberian massacre victims dug up
• Assailants attack UN convoy in eastern Congo

• DRC: UN Appeals for Peace As Violence Curtails Relief Operations
• DRC accuses Rwanda of fuelling fighting on border
• Iraqis (and Zimbabweans) must solve own problems
• Ugandan army denies Congo border troop moves
• Dozens killed in Nigeria's oil region
• Nuns in front line of Mugabe campaign to drive the last whites from Zimbabwe
• SA: Regional parliament too costly?
• As Sudan peace process enters final phase, Annan urges parties to forge on

90 days to stop disaster in Africa: A huge operation to tackle the world's worst unfolding humanitarian crisis will swing into action today following a warning that up to 300 000 people in Sudan could die within months even if essential aid gets through.

Ethiopia needs funds to help tackle AIDS crisis, UN envoy says: Just back from a visit to Africa's second most populous country, Stephen Lewis, the Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, said some 2 million to 3 million people of the nearly 70 million living in Ethiopia are infected with the virus.

Amnesty call on Eritrea detainees: The human rights group says they were detained solely because of their religious beliefs.