Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, has a message for rich countries for rich countries who have pledged billions of dollars of aid to Africa, to back up the promises with real money. Al Jazeera's Nazanin Moshiri reports on how Annan was delivering the findings of a panel set up to monitor G8 commitments made in 2005 and a $40bn shortfall.
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"