Business Daily (Nairobi)
6 April 2008

By Dominique Patton
Chinese investors, who have lately gained a strong presence in Kenya’s telecoms and heavy industry, are now eyeing the country’s farmland as a source of useful raw materials and employment opportunity. Continue Reading »

The East African (Nairobi)
7 April 2008

By Kevin J Kelley
Nairobi
The United Nations is appealing to donors for $500 million in emergency funding to help feed displaced Kenyans and other Africans in increasing danger of going hungry.

“A perfect storm” is threatening millions as food prices soar and as the need for aid grows rapidly, UN World Food Programme director Josette Sheeran warned last week. During a visit to East Africa, Ms Sheeran said food prices are likely to continue rising, making it harder and harder for the poorest Africans to maintain subsistence diets. Continue Reading »

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
7 April 2008
Addis Ababa
Tayech Ali arrived half an hour before the grain distribution centre in Gojam Berenda, in the capital, Addis Ababa, opened, but still had to queue for three hours before she could buy some wheat. Continue Reading »

By Hugh Levinson, Africalab, BBC Radio

A remarkable research centre is helping the lives of vast numbers of Africans - but who is the mystery man in charge?

I’d been warned not to ask his first name. So when I met the man in charge of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), I asked him how he liked to be known. Continue Reading »

A former slave is suing Niger’s government, accusing it of failing to implement laws against slavery introduced in 2003. Continue Reading »