A record 27.79 million people are registered to vote in South Africa – the highest number to date – and the mood is upbeat at polling stations today. Francophone lawmakers from about 30 African states are meeting in Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, to find a solution to the political instability in French-speaking African nations. Investigators using satellite imagery to document the war in western Sudan's Darfur region say 72 villages were burned down in April, the most they have seen since the conflict began a year ago.