Africa coverage story gallery

January 9, 2000

AFRICA - THE AILING CONTINENT

Plagues of old reclaim continent

The mad people of Ibba hardly seem the harbingers of a health crisis consuming Africa.

January 10, 2000

AFRICA - THE AILING CONTINENT

'We die lying to ourselves'

Thandiwe Mwandla can't give her sugar cane away these days, much less sell it. The same goes for her sweet bananas and corn and the hard little peaches that grow in her garden. The fruit has AIDS, people say.

January 11, 2000

AFRICA - THE AILING CONTINENT

Ghastly ebola unlikely to be last of its kind

The wind has no name. But it is a fierce wind, a bad wind, and when it blows down this tar-black jungle river most people run. Because it turns their eyes to color of blood. Because the wind kills them.

March 12, 2000

TWILIGHT OF THE ANIMALS

Africa's wildlife running out of room

Like any other park warden in Africa, Klaus-Jurgen Sucker had enemies, although maybe more than most. When it came to defending his park's endangered mountain gorillas, Sucker knocked heads hard.

March 13, 2000

TWILIGHT OF THE ANIMALS

Silence descends on Africa's forests

In the steamy twilight of the jungle, Gilles Bokande hunkered beside a mossy stump and pinched his nose between his index and middle fingers. Blowing air through the back of his throat, he bleated like a duiker, a tiny forest antelope.

April 2, 2000

CEOs of war bleed Angola

This rocket-shattered village on the desolate plains of northern Angola doesn't look like the front line of an ugly new kind of war in Africa.

August 6, 2000

SECRETS OF AN AFRICAN DESERT:

Angola's brutal war shelters nomads from world's intrusions

A cloudless desert sky, shimmering like polished chrome. A desolate plain, littered with stones, unfolding to all horizons. A vast and ancient stillness. And in this wilderness of dust, the tiny footprints of a child.

December 10, 2000

THE RIVER CONGO:

Torrents of civil war pound ravaged Congo

The rains start in October in Katanga province, with huge drops that fall as they do only in the tropics, straight and hard, like a hail of ball bearings.

December 11, 2000

THE RIVER CONGO:

River of blood flows in war-torn Congo

There are two new burial grounds in this steamy river town.

December 12, 2000

THE RIVER CONGO:

City's 5 million reduced to mere survival

The invalids line their wheelchairs along the edge of the pier, high above the Congo River's swirling, deadly currents, as if about to plunge in.