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In this Edition: FRANCE 24 looks at the growing human cost of a UN-backed government operation to crack down on rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mozambicans voted in presidential, parliamentary and provincial elections on Wednesday with President Armando Guebuza expected to retain power and move to attract more foreign investors. Votes were being counted following the elections but the full official results will not be out until November 12.

Khartoum has welcomed the new US approach on Sudan despite the fact that Washington still describes events in Darfur as genocide. But will Sudan be reponsive to the US demands? Under what conditions? And will this engagement approach work at all?

Tensions caused by poor housing and rising unemployment boiled over in the Algerian capital this week, triggering violent clashes between youths and riot police. Our correspondent in Algiers, Ahmed Tazir, sent us this report.

An investigation has begun in Egypt into a train crash that killed at least 18 people.

Militia brigades abducting children and forcing them to become soldiers, porters and sex slaves is a huge problem in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Somalia's president may have escaped a mortar attack near Mogadishu's airport on Thursday, but many other civilians were not so fortunate.

Somalia's president may have escaped a mortar attack near Mogadishu's airport on Thursday, but many other civilians were not so fortunate.

According to Egypt's National Council for Fighting and Treating Addiction, six million people from Egypt's population are addicted to narcotics.

Civilians caught in the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo have told Al Jazeera of atrocities committed by government troops. The Congolese military claims it is making gains in its campaign to crush rebel groups in the east of the country. But some of those who've fled the conflict say the army are as feared as the rebels. Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow sent this exclusive report from the regional capital, Goma.

Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, has announced he will boycott cabinet meetings with the country's coalition government until his Movement for Democratic Change party is treated as an equal partner.

VOA's Kimberly Russell reports on China-Africa oil relations and how China is seeking new sources of oil to cut energy deals in Nigeria, Ghana and Guinea.

Fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has forced at least 8,000 people from their homes this year. Both sides in the conflict have been accused of killing civilians, as they battle for control of the area. Many of the region's refugees end up crammed into makeshift camps, with no idea when, or even if, they will ever be able to go home. Mohammed Adow reports from eastern DRC.

Relations between the US and Sudan appear to be warming with the White House expected to review its policy towards the African country. Plans to build a US embassy in the capital, Khartoum, are already under way.

Short film about forced eviction in the Ngofaka-polo Waterfront community Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

While diplomats bicker over global warming, the people of Sudan are bracing themselves for more severe droughts. When they come, agriculture collapses, forcing mass migrations, and conflict over dwindling food and water supplies. Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall travelled to a village in Northern Darfur to take a closer look at the problem.

At least 62 people were killed last year in South Africa in xenophobic attacks that displaced tens of thousands of people. Now the three million immigrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo fear racist attacks are on the rise again.

In Kenya, sending money home to villages and farms from the city used to be problematic. Many people in rural areas do not have access to banking, making it difficult for them to receive and send money. But a revolutionary mobile telephone system is making it easy to move money,

Cape Town surfers believe they have broken the world record for the most people on a single wave.

The Egyptian capital of Cairo is the biggest city in the Arab world and Africa. Many of the city's 17 million people live below the poverty line trying to survive in satellite shanty towns while nearby, estate agents sell dream homes for the rich trying to escape Cairo's notorious pollution and traffic. Al Jazeera's Amr El Kakhy reports from Cairo on Egypt's deepening divide between rich and poor.