The best news of the year, if it can turn out to be true. This has been a catastrophe on a scale on which even September 11th would hardly even be visible. And yet it's been virtually ignored.

A civil war, but sponsored from outside, which is the case with the most part of civil wars. Well, hold our breath and hope it's over - and hope that the other foreign sponsored (and generally ignored) wars in Africa (like the one in the Congo) can wind down as well.