Liberia: Taylor Insider Testifies on Links to Sierra Leone Rebels

The monitors of former President Charles Taylor's trial report for www.charlestaylortrial.org on Wednesday's evidence. Read more »

Kenya: African Union Chair Meets Kibaki, Odinga

The African Union chairman, President John Kufuor of Ghana, met Kenyan government and opposition leaders in Nairobi on Wednesday in a bid to bring to an end the country's political… Read more »

Kenya: Latest Moves Set Back Efforts to End Crisis

The events on Monday were a definite step forward in the effort to end Kenya's political crisis, but Tuesday's events quickly became a major step backward. Read more »

Liberia: Sierra Leonean Crime Base Witness Called as Prosecution's Second Witness

Expert legal monitors blogging for the website www.charlestaylortrial.org report on the second day of the war crimes trial. Read more »

South Africa: Cabbages Beneath the Power Lines

It is hard to believe that just over 10 years ago the Siyazama garden, in the township of Khayelitsha, was no more than a sandy wasteland over which forbidding power lines loomed. Read more »

South Africa: Sprinklers Salute Summer Food

Alfred Ngcizela, a member of Hlumani ("growing bigger") Garden in Khayelitsha, stands between beds of spinach, sprinklers whooshing around him in peaceful salute to… Read more »

South Africa: A Revolution Fuelled By Organic Vegetables

A quiet revolution is pulsing through the huge residential areas spread out on the edges of Cape Town. Read more »

South Africa: Cape Town Goes Organic

The market for organic vegetables in Cape Town has increased massively over the last few years, locals in the industry agree. Read more »

Liberia: Market Women Help Revive Economy

To the untutored eye of a visitor from elsewhere, the markets in Liberia and many other African countries seem chaotic, noisy, smelly, dirty and often dangerous. Traders and… Read more »

Kenya: I Believe in Institutions, Now and for Future Generations - Jennifer Riria

Dr. Jennifer Riria left a high-status career as a Kenyan university professor and an international civil servant with United Nations organizations to revive a floundering women's… Read more »

Liberia: Rebuilding Agriculture from Scratch

"Before the War" is a phrase woven into the very fabric of Liberian life, repeated countless times as a way to define how far the country has fallen and its… Read more »

Nigeria: Farmers Turn to Science to Boost Crop Yields

Late last June, farmers in Sabon Gari Ganu village in northern Nigeria's Katsina state divided their plots of land into 56 rows. Using seeds from 16 African countries, the farmers… Read more »

Kenya: Building Bridges At Grassroots

In this entry in his blog, Daudi Were of Nairobi tells of Kenyans who are reaching out to one another across ethnic barriers. Read more »

Nigeria: New Agriculture Projects Focus on Processing, Marketing

It smells of freshly ground peanuts inside the mud-walled room where Dr. A. A. Oredipe is standing. His eyes are focused, but moving—inspecting the machine that this small… Read more »

Liberia: Diamond Industry Expert Called as First Prosecution Witness

The following entry is reprinted from CharlesTaylorTrial.org, a site covering the war crimes trial of former president Charles Taylor. Read more »

Liberia: Charles Taylor Trial Gets Under Way

The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor finally got under way at The Hague in the Netherlands on Monday. Read more »

Liberia: Citizens Lose Interest in Taylor Trial

The trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, is set to resume on Monday. But Boakai Fofana of allAfrica's Monrovia… Read more »

Kenya: U.S. Sends Top Diplomat to Help Resolve Crisis

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is sending her top diplomat for Africa, Jendayi Frazer, to Kenya to talk to both opposition leader Raila Odinga and President Mwai… Read more »

Kenya: Unpacking Election Rigging Allegations

While the international media has mostly focused on the continuing post-election violence in Kenya, what triggered it has gone largely ignored. The election is often simply… Read more »

Kenya: Tutu Joins Church Efforts to Resolve Polls Crisis

Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has flown to Kenya to "assist" in resolving the conflict sparked by President Mwai Kibaki's controversial re-election on… Read more »

Kenya: What is Going On in Our Country?

The latest entry in Kenyan Daudi Were's blog.   Read more »

Kenya: Violence, Controversy Captures International Attention

Kenya made all three major network newscasts in the United States on Monday, and for reasons nobody wanted. Only three or four minutes of a network newscast in the United States is… Read more »

Kenya: Raila Odinga Calls for Thursday Mass Protest

Kenyan blogger Daudi Were was at the opposition news conference in Nairobi on Monday. Read more »

Kenya: Uncertainty Grips Country

Kenyan blogger Daudi Were gives a personal take on events in Nairobi. Read more »

Kenya: Update on Disputed Election Results

The Electoral Commission of Kenya published provisional results at 6.30pm Kenyan time confirming the numbers it had published earlier, saying that challenger Raila Odinga had won… Read more »