US President Barack Obama is to visit his father’s homeland for the first time as an American president

Uganda Wildlife Authority has come up with an interesting way to keep elephants away from people’s homesteads

Liberian officials are advising Ebola survivors to abstain from sex or use protection until more research has been done on the amount of time the virus may remain in semen

A yet-to-be-named sequel to Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Long Walk To Freedom, is to be published in 2016 by Pan Macmillan publishers

A global survey by an American research firm has named Rwanda as the best place to live in Africa

An indefinite period of civil disobedience starting March 30th. This is what Sierra Leone’s main opposition party is cling for unless the country’s sacked VP is reinstated within a week

A video made by a group of African youths is calling on the continent’s longest serving presidents to step aside and make room for democracy

A Ghanaian Associate Professor who was on the commission of inquiry spoke about worrying human rights violations in Eritrea, including unlawful detentions and sexual abuse

A 100 year-old Kenyan woman is in prison for defying a court order which relates to an 18 year old land dispute

Nigeria has been grappling with the issue of child brides, and the onset of the presidential elections has some lawyers and activists fearing that politicians won’t want to address the issue, for fear of alienating voters