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• Oldest gorilla in captivity dies in Dallas at 55
She was often seen napping below a fig tree in her habitat. "We had a tough time saying goodbye," said Todd Bowsher, curator of the zoo's mammals in the Wilds of Africa exhibit.
• Rice meets with terror-fighting allies in Africa
Tunisian Foreign Minister Abdelwahab Abdallah right, greets Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tunis on Saturday. Rice's three-day visit to North Africa, including Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, is her first as Secretary of State in this ...
• Unidentified ship captures 14 Somali pirates
The chaos in Somalia have also made the Horn of Africa a dangerous place for aid workers or foreigners. Two journalists, Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan, an Australian freelance photojournalist, were kidnapped last month.
• Tropical quartet: String of storms boil off coast
Clouds out of Africa Waves of clouds and thunderstorms this time of year head westward from northern Africa every couple days. Some become tropical storms and hurricanes and others just die down.
• U.N.: Nations not doing enough on poverty
Of that, $7.3 billion would have to go to Africa." At that summit, the major industrialized powers agreed to increase yearly aid to developing countries, amounting to an extra $50 billion by 2010 compared to 2004, and to channel $25 billion of the ...