Madonna is back in Malawi, seeking to adopt another child from the country – despite controversy over her adoption of a child there three years ago.

Some beat their heads against the wall until doctors inject them with tranquilizers. Others remain mute for days, their eyes darting around like frightened animals.

Tanzi Bakonzi, 15 and about four feet tall, was on patrol. A terrible mismatch may be shaping up in this isolated patch of northeastern Congo. He stood in front of a burned-out vegetable market, wielding a rusty machete and wearing blue toenail polish.

MUSINA, South Africa — They bear the look of street urchins, their eyes on the prowl for useful scraps of garbage and their bodies covered in clothes no cleaner than a mechanic's rags.

It is a war that is waged by heavily armed soldiers against unarmed villagers and its casualties both living and dead mark the rebirth of Africa's most feared guerrilla group – the Lord's Resistance Army.

The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world's poorest women in Africa.

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