A year and half following the Ethiopian, and American invasion to remove the Union of Islamic Court from Mogadishu, Somalia has reached its worse state ever with more people being killed and starving. Like Iraq was better off under the rule of Saddam Hussein, so too is the case of Somalia under the 6 month rule of the Union of Islamic Courts. Prime Minister Zenawi of Ethiopia has made the situation much worse in Somalia and increasingly is seen as a pariah within certain circles of the African Union.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"