• 23 African Countries Facing Food Emergencies This Summer - UN Report
• Tale of horror begins Sierra Leone trials
• Mbeki stance on Zim baffles UK MPs
• Khatami receives Nigerian Ambassador
• Africa reluctant to sign anti-corruption bill
• Equatorial Guinea: Amnesty Calls On Government to "Stop the Killings"
• Elf Shuts Down Nigeria Operations, Cites Technical Hitches _crude Prices Rise Again
• Butaflika calls on the army not to interfere in politics
• Monrovia at war again -- with waste

• Dozens killed in tribal clashes in Sudan
• Sudan pressed further on Darfur
• Great Lakes: DRC-Based Rwandan Militiamen Enter Burundi
• African Union troops to protect ceasefire monitors
• UN: Walk Away From Debts, Africa Told
• Africa reluctant to sign anti-corruption bill
• African Union slams Zimbabwe rights abuses
• Opposition is 'selling out' Zimbabwe
• Mugabe begs World Bank for more cash
• Tunisia: Bin Ali hopes for a strategic partnership with Washington
• Burundi: UN Mission Deploys Troops to Bujumbura Rural

Africa is not poor, needs management: The annual budget of most African
governments includes an element of external financing, but much
as their nationals appreciate donor funding of development
projects, they are fed up with reports about Finance ministers
who globetrot with a begging bowl that eventually inflates the
economy.