Sub-Saharan Africa 

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Africa's Worst War

UN Reports Congo war fueled by Plunder

Tensions in Horn of Africa hurt war on Terror

African Instability

Polio 'firewall' around Nigeria

Primates face Grim Future

 

There have been over 9.5 million refugees and hundreds and thousands of people have been slaughtered. If this scale of destruction and fighting was in Europe, then people would be calling it World War III with the entire world rushing to report, provide aid, mediate and otherwise try to diffuse the situation.

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Sierra Leone: New Government Must Address War Legacies

The bondage of poverty that produces chocolate

In Ivory Coast, 'foreign' farmers reap bitter harvest

Sudan's civil war has endured for 18 years. Rebel armies in southern Sudan continue to fight against Sudanese government forces and their militia in a bid for political autonomy or independence for southern Sudan. The long war is complicated by violent military and ethnic divisions among southerners. Numerous southern commanders have repeatedly changed allegiances during the conflict, and some northern groups opposed to the government have formed a military alliance with southern rebels. The combination of constant war and periodic droughts has caused serious food shortages. The government and rebel armies have manipulated massive amounts of international relief aid that flows into the country.

The war has left an estimated 2 million persons dead in southern and central Sudan since 1983. At the beginning of 2001, approximately 4 million Sudanese were internally displaced, and 420,000 Sudanese were refugees in neighboring countries. Despite the war, some 360,000 refugees from other countries resided in Sudan.

IMF: Angola's 'missing millions'
The IMF says in a report obtained by the BBC that nearly $1bn vanished from the Angolan Government's finances last year.

Geographer's nightmare