DRC: Rare rhinos poached

Sudanese Arab horsemen, whose kin are being recruited by the Janjaweed militias in Darfur, are poaching elephants and endangered white rhinos in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, conservationists say. The poaching raids have halved the world's remaining wild northern white rhino population, threatening it with extinction, said Fraser Smith, head of the Garamba National Park Project, in northeastern Congo.