For many parents in Sudan, sending their children to school is a luxury they simply cannot afford.
And for some, survival depends on sending their children to work from an early age.
However, this situation is now changing, with the government pledging to provide education for every child by the year 2015.
Al Jazeera's Imran Khan reports.
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"