Oumar, 16, was preparing for exams when insurgents overran his historic town of Timbuktu. The town was first captured in March by fighters from the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) who want an independent state in north Mali. Weeks later, Islamist extremists seized the town from them.

The Advertiser for Africa campaign was not only a chance for me to see what is happening in Uganda, but it was an opportunity for readers to find out exactly where their money was going. So many large charities operate "top down" schemes, whereby the directors skim off a layer of donations and the rest gets swallowed up and unaccounted for.

It's one of the cardinal rules when you're interviewing - detach yourself from the interviewee. Ask questions, take notes, but never get emotionally involved in the story. To put it simply, it isn't professional to have a vested interest in the person's life. I've always upheld this rule, that was until I met Nanjeke.

HIV/AIDS work is only the most recent global response of faith-inspired health care. From the late 19th Century faith communities have been providing medical care through clinics and hospitals.

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's latest aviation investment FastJet has announced it will add its first 156 seater Airbus 319 to its growing fleet in Novemb...

Healthcare in Kenya is difficult, to say the least. As the country continues to develop, the gap in adequate care grows. Now, for a population where diseases like malaria, pneumonia, and HIV are common, the choice is often between insufficient care and bankruptcy.

David Njenga is sitting at home--a dank, claustrophobic room in Rongai--with his wife and two young children. Perhaps ironically for a man whose legs ...

The people of Rongai need their diversions. The monotony of the fields, the doldrums of village life every so often require some recreational respite. And that is just what Rongai Park Casino has to offer.

An ancient skull unearthed in Laos has reset the clock of human migration to southern Asia back 20,000 years. The discovery suggests that the first...

In the space of 10 months, Niger has been hit by a food crisis brought on by high market prices and poor harvests, a refugee crisis triggered by conflict in neighbouring Mali, followed by a cholera outbreak and now devastating floods. It has left many in this West African state wondering when the next disaster is and what could it possibly be?

So after finishing form four last November, she wanted to attend university to pursue that enthusiasm--and eventually, a career. But like so many other youth in this area, poverty stunted her growth.

Two presidential portraits hang in the office of Simon Mutai, the deputy-head teacher of Muricho primary school. One shows Daniel Arap Moi, Kenya's former president; the other his successor Mwai Kibaki, the current head of state. In a way the two images symbolise the problem now facing Kenyan schools.

The dried mud walls of Talai Kosgei's home are a common feature around Legetio. Bricks and stones are expensive and in short supply, so many farmers rely on the soil to construct their kitchens, if not their main houses.

"We call this area Nairobi," says Wesley Rotich, gazing across a 50 acre basin of severely eroded land, punctuated by red mud stacks of various sizes. "Nairobi is all tall buildings and short buildings and it looks like this."

At 72 years old, Daniel Kihuga's dreams about fish are finally coming true.