• Polio: UN health experts warn that West, Central Africa may soon face epidemic
• Mugabe's torture camps shut down
• Alleged mercenaries' trial to go ahead in Zim
• Rumblings of war in heart of Africa
• HIV and hunger spell 'death spiral' for southern Africa - UN relief official
• Politics-Sierra Leone: 'I Don't Have Any Case to Answer Before This Court'
• Sierra Leone Communities Give Up Arms for Development
• FG Evacuates 17,000 Nigerians From Cameroon
• SA: Govt to oppose apartheid lawsuit

• UN Security Council warns against belligerence in eastern DR of Congo
• Number of Congolese fleeing to Burundi jumps to 31,000, UN reports
• Liberia: UN Peacekeepers Extend Reach Towards Ivorian Border
• Keep out of DRC drama, UN tells neighbours
• Burundi-Tanzania: UN Refugee Agency Opens New Border Crossing With Tanzania
• Fuel Marketers, Tanker Owners at War Over N400m Debt; Service Withdrawal Cripples Abuja, Environs
• Uganda: Govt, 12 parties sign 2006 pact
• Angola: Discussions On Election Timetable to Begin
• Kenya working on maternal mortality

Big Setback in War On Aids: Kenya's war on Aids has suffered a major setback after the World Bank withheld crucial funding. The decision not to release Sh1.7 billion has crippled the National Aids Control Council, the organisation charged with coordinating a national response to the epidemic.

South Africa a human trafficking hub: "I am young -- but up here is old," says an 11-year-old girl working as a prostitute in Cape Town, pointing to her head -- one of many images in hard-hitting footage on the sex industry, screened at the opening of a conference on human trafficking in South Africa on Tuesday.