A former child soldier from Sudan's civil war has found a new forum for his message.
Emerging international hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal is trying to convince world leaders to take action now in Sudan by rapping at the UN.
This is his story, in his own words.
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"