Welcome to London, the host city of the 2012 Olympic Games. This is the message that greets you at Heathrow Airport. Despite the sometimes negative attitude of the British to the hosting of the Olympics, it is pretty darn difficult not to notice that London has caught the Olympics fever. From the Games Lane that takes you to Central London and the Olympic Park, to the Cultural Olympiad events happening round the city. There is no mistaken it. A cable car across the Thames has even been built to coincide with the Olympics.

Perhaps the difficulty is in shifting people's perceptions of these regions. Away from the stereotypes of poverty, corruption and violence, there is an alternative picture materialising in Africa. Anyone who does business there will tell you of the vibrant entrepreneurial spirit that goes hand in hand with a growing economic power.

A British woman believes her sister was aboard a plane which crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, killing everyone on board. Jill Chime, from Liverpool, told...

A plane crash has killed all 153 passengers after hitting a building in one of the busiest cities in Nigeria. The disaster struck on Sunday in the ...

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor has been found guilty of war crimes after a five year trial. Taylor, 64, described by prosecutors as an "inte...

Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor will likely be imprisoned in the UK if international judges find him guilty of war crimes after a five year tria...

James Ibori, the former governor of Delta state, Nigeria, who started his career as a cashier at Wickes has been jailed for 13 years at Southwark Crow...

Four years into the worst financial crisis of modern times, it should not come as a surprise that leaving decisions to financial markets will often fail to produce the best social outcome.

James Ibori, who once worked as a cashier in a Middlesex branch of the hardware chain Wickes, is due to be sentenced on Tuesday for his role in a frau...

A vulnerable teenager who is believed to have been trafficked into the UK has been found. Sussex Police said she and another girl, who are both 15 ...

Shell said today that it wanted a "speedy resolution" to a compensation dispute with farmers and fishermen after oil spills in Nigeria. Bosses said...

The family of Christopher McManus, the British hostage killed in Nigeria, have paid tribute to to him on the day of his funeral, as someone who had a ...

The terrorists who killed Chris McManus and his Italian co-worker Francesco Molinara had “standing orders” to shoot the hostages should they come ...

The diplomatic row that broke out between Britain and Italy following a hostage rescue operation in Nigeria has been downplayed in a joint statement f...

British construction worker Chris McManus was captured by Al Qaida operatives operating in northern Nigeria. A group calling itself "Al Qaida in th...

A sheep has allegedly given birth to a ‘half-sheep half-human’ baby in Sokoto, Nigeria. Local newspaper the Daily Sun reported that after vets...

Africa's growth has averaged just below 6% over the last decade. And with the world economy slowing including China's, one is tempted to ask if this g...

Britain today condemned a series of terrorist bomb attacks in Nigeria which have left scores of people dead. At least 143 people were reported to h...

With eight sub Saharan economies having more than doubled in size since 2001 and more African children attending school than ever before, will Africa's public health conditions improve at the same rate that ours did?

The extraordinary levels of energy that we need to do our work is the stuff of youth. And even at 40, we still have enough of the conceited, angry teenager to protest the senselessness of a rich world where so many people suffer and die for lack of medical care.