TUNISIA. IVORY Coast. South African #police fired on #dem. GAMBIA. South Africa and secrecy: Don’t blow the whistle. NICARAGUA. ETHIOPIA. NIGERIA. UGANDA. TUNISIA. When you talk too much for Twitter. Lord-s-resistance-army" Ex-Warlord Becomes Kingmaker in Liberia Ballot. CAMEROON. Visa shadow over Desmond Tutu's birthday - Africa. Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South Africa's retired archbishop and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has celebrated his 80th birthday. Known as "The Arch", Tutu is a much-loved figure in his country, mostly for the role he played in ending apartheid. Friday's birthday celebration, however, was not without controversy.
Earlier in the week he branded South Africa's government, which is led by the African National Congress party, "worse than apartheid" over suspicions that a delay in issuing a visa to Tibet’s Dalai Lama was due to pressure from China. As a result, the Dalai Lama was unable to attend Tutu’s celebration, but still delivered a message wishing the archbishop well. Among those in attendance were Graça Machel, Nelson Mandela's wife, and Bono, lead singer of Irish rock band U2.
Sparked debate Al Jazeera's Tania Page, reporting from Johannesburg, said that Tutu's stinging attack on the government had sparked debate over the current government’s political direction.
KENYA. GHANA. SUDAN. DRC Congo. SOMALIA. The road to Dadaab. Gerissa, Kenya - It takes a while to weave your way through the dusty streets of Nairobi and surface from the coagulated gunk that is the city's air. The city confuses me. In one moment it takes me home, further south the African coast, to Durban. And in the the next moment it startles me with an air of Delhi. The orchestrated chaos of informal traders unwrapping their bright, fresh vegetables onto wooden tray tables beside oversized football shirts and mobile phone batteries would pass easily for a scene from Durban's central business district where messy informality and sneaky formality contest each other for the remaining vestiges of crucial business space.
But then, the area around Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta monument, opulently wide, with an affectation of stateliness, together with the perennial haze that hangs over the city skyline like a soiled sheet, takes me back to the Indian capital. It's funny what malaria tablets can do to you. African skies Dead river-beds Tomorrow, onto Dadaab. In Pictures: The other side of famine - In Pictures. Touted as the harshest drought in six decades, more than 12 million people are said to be vulnerable to starvation in the Horn of Africa. Somalia, without a central government for the past two decades, has been the worst hit, with around 3.2 million of its citizens facing intermittent starvation. Every day thousands flee to Kenya, Ethiopia and Yemen. In the Dadaab refugee complex in north eastern Kenya, which is home to an estimated 440,000, mostly Somali, refugees, the UNHCR says that the plight of new arrivals reflects deteriorating conditions inside Somalia.
Dadaab may be bursting at the seams - a stark example of natural disaster and human failure - but it is also the site of innovation, agency and entrepreneurialism. Al Jazeera's Azad Essa goes in search of the other side of famine in Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world.