IRINnews NIGER: Southern villages emptying as drought bites web | TANOUT, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - "Empty" increasingly describes the southern Niger town of Tanout in Zinder Region: Water wells and pastures, fields and food banks - and slowly - entire villages, ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Zeenews Circumcision may not cut HIV spread among gay men New York: Although studies in Africa have shown that circumcision can lower the spread of HIV among heterosexuals, it may not do much to prevent infections among gay and bisexual men in Western countr... (photo: AP / Jerome Delay)
The Miami Herald Lance Armstrong arrives in South Africa | CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has arrived in South Africa ahead of his appearance in the Cape Argus cycling race. | Armstrong flew into Cape Town late... (photo: AP / Michael A. Mariant) AfricaArmstrongCyclingPhotosSport
Al Jazeera Nigerians bury massacre victims | Nigerians are burying victims of a massacre of predominantly Christian villagers near the central city of Jos, blamed on a Muslim group. | The burials in mass grav... (photo: AP / APTN) DealthMuslimsNigeriaPhotosViolence
BBC News Central Africa's beguiling republic | Poverty stricken, difficult to get around and considered too dangerous to visit by many Western governments, Central African Republic is not a tourism hot-spot. But our... (photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam) AfricaEconomyPhotosPovertyTourism
Al Jazeera Nigeria cracks down after attacks | Nigerian authorities have arrested nearly a hundred people in connection with attacks near the central city of Jos that killed more than 500 people. | Police and soldie... (photo: AP / Jon Gambrell) CrimeHuman RightsNigeriaPhotosViolence
