This article describes a woman who was gang-raped and burned in her house is now testifying in court against Lieutenant Colonol Bedi Mobuli Engangel. She also claims that she witnessed the colonel give he rape order. This relates as extreme levels of rape used as a weapon against the people, has been taking place in the DRC and from men in the army on civilians and have been getting away with it, up until recently.

This articles describes how this senior opposition lawmaker in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Bertrand Ewanga, was sentenced on Thursday to one year in prison for insulting the president of the DRC, Joseph Kabila. This relates because again more violence is being taken, but now in the hands of Laurent Kabila's, Joseph.

This article/ video describe how this man, Marc-Antoine Vumilia, was sent to jail/ death for being convicted in plotting the assassination of President Kabila but later escaped. This relates because in the previous articles it describes how he ruled and basically brought more violence to the DRC rather than ending the violence and stabilize the government, which led to his assassination.

This article explains that taxes in Zimbabwe will be rising on items such as phones and many other items because of the slow decline of Zimbabwe's over the last decade. Businesses and companies haven been shutting down or downsizing because of neighboring countries competition. This relates because it is describing the rising in taxes to the native population and many Zimbabweans may have to sell some of their possessions to afford these raises in taxes.

This article describes the situation occurring in Zimbabwe where it's president, Robert Mugabe, has demand the extraction on a few hundred white farmers who remain in Zimbabwe, declaring all should go back to the origin (of land) of their ancestors, but one must be careful not to disturb the already fragile economy. This relates because here we see more problems with white farmers from Britain and black Zimbabweans in relation to farming.

This article tells how Russia is about to sign a major joint platinum mining deal in/ with Zimbabwe. This relates because before, there were rumors of gold in Zimbabwe, but mining revealed no such gold. However, in Harare, platinum is confirmed to be in Zimbabwe's reserves and it will not be soon until mining will commence for this platinum.

The article describes Somaliland and it's transition into statehood, and some of the conflicts it faced with it's foreign policy and it's country isolation. This connects with the audio article as it drives into problems that Somaliland is facing as well as it's goal to reach recognition by other parts of the world.

This articles describes recent events of Somali's Islamist group al-Shabab leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US air strike attack earlier this week, the Pentagon has said. This relates to the previous articles because it talks about how, "The al-Shabab leader had publicly claimed the group's responsibility for the deadly Westgate shopping centre attack in September last year, he said."; in addition, this article also talks about the many suicide bombings that had taken place, which they now take responsibility for.

This article describes the attack that occurred one year ago, where gunmen from the Shabab militant group in Somalia laid siege to the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. This relates to the article "Somlia Militants Mixing Business and Terror", as they talked about large scale attacks on civilians and even stated this incident/massacre directly.

This article describes how the why the people of South Africa are upset as Pistorius is found not guilty because of the lack of evidence. This relates to our previous information because almost as the people were segregated by their race, and the whites had more freedom/rights over the blacks; however in this scenario, it is applied to how this as he is a celebrity, this may have skid out of jail by his popularity rather than actual lack of evidence.

This articles describes the lack of growth and development of women extending into high education. This relates to the poor education systems in South Africa because as it experienced apartheid and as it was hard enough to get/have well educated teachers to teach the class now there is an issue to get well educated female teachers in higher education. In short, education continues to be a problem within South Africa, however the problems have down scaled, but are equally important.

This article describes the battle of HIV that Africa has continually fought against for decades. With the poverty stricken hospitals and low medical care it has become increasingly difficult to handle this disease. All in all, this disease has decreased the population as well as the life expectancy rate/age.