A new $180 million dollar program aims to breath new life into more than four million small-scale farms in Africa. The five-year effort will restore nutrients to depleted soil.

Conservation groups say they have found an unusual threat to east Africa's wildlife - hunting by hungry refugees.

Kenya's embattled opposition was poised to begin three days of mass rallies to protest an intensely disputed presidential vote they say was rigged in favour of incumbent President Mwai Kibaki.

Kenya's rival factions girded for fresh political battles at the first sitting of the new parliament as former UN chief Kofi Annan is set to make an effort to ease the crisis triggered by last month's disputed presidential election.

Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing phenomenal population growth since the beginning of the XXth Century, following several centuries of population stagnation attributable to the slave trade and colonization. The region’s population in fact increased from 100 million in 1900 to 770 million in 2005.

South African prosecutors charge ANC leader Jacob Zuma with corruption

Unofficial early results from Kenya's presidential election show the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, trailing his main challenger Raila Odinga.

Several hundred Ethiopian and Malaysian employees of the global oil giant Royal Dutch Shell are suing the company for alleged unlawful acts in relation to employee retirement funds. Shell has already faced similar litigation by its employees in South Africa. Is there a racial discrimination aspect to these cases?

European and African leaders have opened their first summit in seven years in Lisbon, with calls to forge a new relationship between the continents.

Nigeria has more oil than any other African country. But it can't keep the lights on, writes Samantha Chang.

Last month’s inaugural IPTV World Forum Middle East and Africa 2007, was an unprecedented success with the show attracting over 700 attendees, who were able to see over 20 exhibiting companies from across the region (www.iptv-mea.com).

Britain supposes that Thabo Mbeki, South African President, is making good progress toward hammering out a deal to hold fair elections in Zimbabwe.