The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945. The World Food Day theme for 2007 is "The Right to Food."

After 15 years of support for African American authors Karibu is closing its doors.

The drug wars have encapsulated the african american youth-many living in despair from the addiction that keeps them in chains. Family values have become a thing of the past, where have the golden years gone by.

There is an ugly little secret in a beautiful corner of Bali.An adorable baby lion cub, emaciated and covered in sores, is chained by the neck inside a tiny, stinking cage.Not far away his parents, both proud African lions, lie on the filthy concrete floor of another cage, chained by their necks to posts. The baby's father has an open wound on hi

If there is a chain of visual allusions binding African victims of war to American victims of terror, it surely is unconscious. One should ask whether it might also be influential, and to what end. Are the photos merely imitative of those before them, or are they artistic attempts to mark yet another breakdown in humane social order?

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants his country's citizens who allegedly kidnapped children in Chad to face trial in France, he told a press conference broadcast from N'Djamena, the African nation's capital, by La Chaine Info.