Royals walk a political tightrope
Saudi officials, walking the delicate line between their friendship with the United States and domestic unease over U.S. troops stationed on their soil, said Sunday they would not allow troops...
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Worry gives way to feeling of helplessness
For Patrick Gallagher, a Latin American recruiter for Loyola College of Maryland, Tuesday was a day of deep and bitter frustration. Phone lines to the United States from Panama City,...
Big names backing big-game hunter
A wealthy American safari hunter has triggered the latest skirmish over sport hunting in Africa--not because of his shooting, but over the identity of his political gun-bearers. Steven E. Chancellor,...
City’s 5 million reduced to mere survival
The invalids line their wheelchairs along the edge of the pier, high above the Congo River's swirling, deadly currents, as if about to plunge in. But they are not suicidal....
River of blood flows in war-torn Congo
There are two new burial grounds in this steamy river town. Gaston Nyimu Kaya built one. It looks like a small Arlington cemetery."We buried the people we could identify here,"...
Torrents of civil war pound ravaged Congo
The rains start in October in Katanga province, with huge drops that fall as they do only in the tropics, straight and hard, like a hail of ball bearings. Water...
Angola’s brutal war shelters nomads from world’s intrusions
A cloudless desert sky, shimmering like polished chrome. A desolate plain, littered with stones, unfolding to all horizons. A vast and ancient stillness. And in this wilderness of dust, the...
CEOs of war bleed Angola
This rocket-shattered village on the desolate plains of northern Angola doesn't look like the front line of an ugly new kind of war in Africa. Everything seems too dismally familiar....
Silence descends on Africa’s forests
In the steamy twilight of the jungle, Gilles Bokande hunkered beside a mossy stump and pinched his nose between his index and middle fingers. Blowing air through the back of...
Africa’s wildlife running out of room
Like any other park warden in Africa, Klaus-Jurgen Sucker had enemies, although maybe more than most. When it came to defending his park's endangered mountain gorillas, Sucker knocked heads hard....