South Sudanese get ready to vote
Ishbel Matheson is director of media at Save the Children and is blogging from South Sudan over the election period. Juba election fever? Tuesday April 6, 2010 We are flying above a scrubby desert, then suddenly close to a large rocky outcrop. There's the
What is the secret of the LRAs survival?
When regional troops launched a long-planned and U.S.-backed attack on the bases of the brutal Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) nearly a year and a half ago, the days of the Ugandan rebel outfit were supposed to be numbered. But the cult-like group, led by sel
Refugee camp is icon of past and present African crises
Please help me, said a desperate-looking woman coming towards me. "I have been raped and beaten several times in this camp but no one seems to hear me out," added the woman, Maria Mutetsi. Mutetsi is a Rwandan widow who fled her country soon after the 19