In Sudan, people living with Aids are faced with predudices and ignorance about their disease.
Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston tells the story of Umm Ahmed, who has been made an outcast by her family and whose son is not allowed to play with other children.
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"