Caught between drought and guns in Uganda
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NAWEET, Uganda  - Drought cycles are coming more often to northeastern Uganda: every two years instead of every five.
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ALERE, Uganda -- Kasmiro Bongonyinge remembers sitting up suddenly in his bed. It was just after sunrise on a summer morning two years ago, and the old man, 87 years old and blind, knew something was wrong.
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GULU, Uganda  - Silver haired and dressed in a  smart blue suit and tie, Kenneth Banya sips tea in the heart of  the community he took part in terrorizing for almost two  decades.
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Tourist boat rides will resume on Monday in a Ugandan national park hit by an anthrax outbreak that has killed about 180 hippos in the last three months, officials said.
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - U.N. peacekeepers are  scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes  region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in  western Burundi, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Uganda's army on Wednesday has not yet   chosen the safe routes northern rebels are supposed to take   from the bush to camps in south Sudan as part of a truce that   may mark the end of one of Africa's longest wars.
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LACOR CAMP, Uganda  - Refugees forced into crowded camps by northern Uganda's two-decade civil war need many things: food, doctors, toilets, bore holes for drinking water, schools -- and computers?
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Armed poachers from Sudan have been raiding and destroying neighboring Central African Republic's wildlife resources for years. Now, with the help of a militant U.S. conservationist, the CAR populace is arming and training itself to fight back.
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KHAYELITSHA, South Africa -- The road in front of Princess Rini's leaky, wooden shack has been paved. There is a primary school and a library down the street. And though three of the outdoor taps the government built nearby are broken, a twist on the fourth brings forth copious clean water.
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GULU, Uganda  - The Ugandan army said on Wednesday it had resumed an offensive against Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in northern Uganda, complicating peace talks aimed at ending one of Africa's most vicious wars.
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RI-KWANGBA, Sudan-Congo border  - The two top   leaders of the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have   missed a Tuesday deadline to gather at an assembly point on the   Sudan-Congo border as part of a truce, mediators said.
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BOWARA, Central African Republic  - Driven from their homes by armed raiders, terrified villagers in northwest Central African Republic say they are surviving in the bush eating roots, fruit and leaves.
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When Kenneth Banya heard the voices of his former rebel colleagues on the radio calling for an end to Uganda&#39;s 18-year civil war, he knew it was time to surrender.
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A cease-fire between northern fighters and the Ugandan government is expected to be signed Friday. By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.
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BUJUMBURA/UNITED NATIONS  - UN peacekeepers are scrambling to avoid new bloodshed in the volatile Great Lakes region of Africa following a massacre of Congolese refugees in western Burundi, the United Nations ...
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced