BBC News US to announce food security plan for Africa US President Barack Obama is set to announce a $3bn (£1.9bn) plan to boost food security and farm productivity in Africa, US officials say. | They say the initiative is aimed at alleviating shortages... (photo: UN / WFP/Phil Behan) Africa Aid Photos US Wikipedia: United States Agency for International Development BBC News Niger malnutrition crisis spreading - Save the Children Months of warnings have failed to prevent a serious malnutrition crisis in Niger, Save the Children has said. | The charity says more than six million people are affected there, and about 18 million i... (photo: UN / WFP/Phil Behan) Children Malnutrition Niger Photos Wikipedia: Sahel drought Top Stories Al Jazeera Aid group slams Nigeria for lead poisoning | A deadly lead poisoning outbreak that began two years ago in northern Nigeria continues to claim young victims even today, an aid agency official has said. | Ivan Gayto... (photo: AP / Sunday Alamba) Health Mining Nigeria Photos Wikipedia: Zamfara State lead poisoning epidemic The State Clashes resume in Congo's east | KINSHASA, Congo - Fighting resumed Friday in eastern Congo between the army and a group of ex-soldiers who left the military to form a new rebel group, an army spokesma... (photo: UN / Elizabeth Murekio) Ethnic Kinshasa Photos UN Violence Wikipedia: Ethnic group BBC News Child deaths: Preventable infections 'the leading cause' Most deaths of young children around the world are from mainly preventable infectious causes, experts have said. | A US team, writing in the Lancet, looked at mortality f... (photo: AP / Brennan Linsley) Children Death Health Photos Wikipedia: Child my SA Gay marriage a distant dream around the world | BANGKOK (AP) — China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. Mobs in Senegal have disinterred bodies of men they believe were gays and dra... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert) Activists Gays Marriage Photos Wikipedia: Homosexuality IRINnews AFRICA: AU wants peace, security and bigger global role in 2012 Photo: Trevor Samson/World BankThe IMF predicts average growth of 5.5 percent for Africa in 2012WASHINGTON, 12 January 2012 (IRIN) - The African Union (AU) has unveiled a... (photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe) Africa Peace Photos Security Sudan Wikipedia: African Union The Independent Sudan accused of using Kony's army | Ugandan military commanders said they had new evidence to support previous allegations that Khartoum has been supplying the rebel army accused of repeated atrocities ag... (photo: AP / Pete Muller) Military Photos Sudan Uganda Wikipedia: Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement Canberra Times US troops join jungle hunt for brutal rebel commander | ''Advise and assist'' ... US forces are in the Central African Republic to look for the notorious Joseph Kony, below. Photo: AP | Joseph Kony's power may have waned, bu... (photo: AP) Africa Conflict Photos US Wikipedia: Joseph Kony The Guardian Timely malaria treatment a matter of life and death for Congolese children | Malaria claims thousands of young lives in the DRC each year, but a successful project in remote Kimbi shows it needn't be so A Congolese child suffering from severe ma... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Children Life Malaria Photos Wikipedia: Malaria Independent online Malaria infections surge in Congo Dakar - Malaria cases treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) more than tripled to 155 000 last year from two years previous, ... (photo: UN / Marco Dormino) Congo Disease Health Photos
