Kenya's coastal resorts become ghost towns
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MOMBASA, Kenya  - In 16 years of working at resorts along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, hotel manager Mohamed Hersi has never seen it this bad.
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A planned opposition rally appeared to falter on Friday, giving Kenya some respite from post-election turmoil that has killed more than 300 people.
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The province's residents blame their region's relative serenity for their lack of aid money and large development projects.
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BODOULI, Central African Republic  - The village of Korosigna in northern Central African Republic is barely recognizable to those who once lived there.
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NAIVASHA, Kenya -- Benson Onyango slipped behind the door of his house, terrified as he watched about two dozen young men chase his friend down the dirt paths of their neighborhood in this lakeside town. His friend stumbled to the ground, and the gang began beating him with clubs and iron bars.
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In the wake of the tsunami, there was abundant amateur video of the disaster coming from tourist hotspots, like Phuket, Thailand. But some of the villages and islands in the path of the devastating
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Symbols of former mainlanders' past, the villages are being plowed under to accommodate urban growth.
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Over the past few days, tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenyaâs president, have fled the western part of the country because of ethnic violence.
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Most of the resorts hit by the tsunami are back in business. Now all they need is for tourists to return
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THOUSANDS of tourists in Asian beach resorts were listed dead or missing today in the wake of the tidal waves that engulfed the region after an earthquake.
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Past the greenhouses and fields of roses, a chain fence surrounds rows of white tents.
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Kenya is trying to rid itself of one of  the last vestiges of colonial rule.
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TINE, Sudan  - In the ghost town of Tine on the  Chad-Sudan border, a few residents remain, camping in the  hospital and the dilapidated school while they wait for their  old neighbors to return.
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When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.
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Sri Lanka's truce brought back tourists but the tsunami has ended the revival, writes Sanjoy Majumder.
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KISUMU, Kenya -- Three weeks after burning down the old Kimwa Grand Hotel here, many of the admitted arsonists returned to its charred remains, scavenging sheets of scrap metal, doors and wires.
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More and more South Africans are giving up on farming and transforming their land into upscale game reserves.