The World Summit on Sustainaible Development, dubbed Rio+10, attracted an estimated 25,000 participants, according to the South African host government and the United Nations.

The World Food Program's project to improve food security in the most food insecure areas throughtout Ethiopia, in pictures.

On June 15, 2002, C. Payne Lucas, President of Africare for the past 31 years, retired. A tribute to his years of work in Africa was held in Washington, DC on July 11.

Out of the ashes of the OAU, the African Union was born on Tuesday July 9, 2002, at the 60,000-seater Absa stadium in Durban, South Africa.

On 14 May, Sierra Leoneans went to the polls for the first time since the official end of the civil war was declared in January. They had a choice of nine presidential candidates, including the incumbent, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and voted also for 112 members of parliament.

The much-trumpeted Inter-Congolese Dialogue, to try to resolve the four year civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, finally opened in the South African resort of Sun City on 26 February 2002.

On March 9 through 11, Zimbabweans went to the polls to choose a new president.

Every Tuesday in Nairobi is a shopper's delight -- the Maasai Market. Anything you care to buy, beaded Maasai jewellery, beaded boxes, wooden sculptures, leather thongs -- all are on display.

In 1999, journalist and researcher Mike Fleshman, then the Human Rights Coordinator for The Africa Fund in New York, traveled to the River Niger Delta oil fields in southern Nigeria to witness, at first hand, the impact of the petroleum industry on local communities and the environment.

"A beacon of hope" - that's how the United Nations describes Senegal's battle against HIV/AIDS and it certainly has been an all too rare success story for Africa. AllAfrica.com's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton and other journalists were given the opportunity to find out just how Senegal's authorities and ordinary people have set about fighting the disease.