The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has reported nearly 30,000 Angolans were recently expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The 73 year old Canadian environmental activist was awarded an honorary Right Livelihood Award for "... for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science ..."

An undercover investigation carried out by Endangered Species International has found up to two gorillas are killed and sold as bushmeat each week in Kouilou, a region of the Republic of Congo.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

During Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 11-day tour in Africa, she will be required to answer questions in a respectful and intelligent manner. On one occasion, she did not.

In a very risky experiment in conducted in Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Scientist opted to used mosquitoes as "artificial injections," delivering live malaria parasites through their bites.

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.

The United Nations is reporting 90 dead after an attack in eastern Congo by Hutu militia. As many of 60 of the dead were civilians.

Land battles are expected to escalate in at least 30 districts in oil-rich Uganda, which also is the African country with the world's third-highest population growth. A 'time-bomb in waiting', warns a local USAID-funded non-governmental organisation.

Lake Victoria in Uganda: Some 250 feet deep, murky, dark, crocodile-infested -- for divers searching for the wreck of a large military cargo plane it's similar to looking for a black cat inside a coal shed at midnight - without a flashlight.