Affleck in ABC Special

Ben Affleck is to take on another job, even if it is only a one time thing. He's to travel to eastern Congo to do a report for ABC's Thursday edition of Nightline, reported Reuters.

He's been there three times in the past year and posted an essay on ABC's Web site saying that he wanted to draw attention to the violence and disease in the region in which 1,200 people die every day, reported Reuters. "It makes sense to be skeptical about celebrity activism," Affleck told ABC. "There is always the suspicion that involvement with a cause may be doing more good for the spokesman than he or she is doing for the cause."

A spokeswoman for ABC news, Emily Lezner, told Reuters that Affleck was not a correspondent for the Thursday night show, and that the show only shows a trip he took last month to the Congo.

He talks about the tragedies that are going on in Africa and have been going on for the past years. Since 1998, about 5.4 million people have died in the Congolese by the hands of children bearing AK-47s and power hungry warlords, reported Reuters.