A crucial senatorial election in the heart of Monrovia pits Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's Unity Party against soccer legend George Weah's Congress for Democratic Unity.
About 200 Nigerians have settled in a returnee camp after having fled Bakassi to escape enslavement or death, writes Patrick Ochoga for Leadership.
President Jakaya Kikwete, in an interview with AllAfrica at State House in Dar es Salaam, right, spoke of the government's ambitious targets for growth in food crops, as well as for insuring that the country’s economic growth is “pro-poor”, benefiting the 85 percent of people living in rural areas. President Kikwete said that while supporting more productivity among peasant farmers, Tanzania also wants to attract private businesses to the sector, enabling such enterprises as seed multiplication.