Farming in Nigeria is not for the fainthearted. Intermittent electricity means generators are needed half the time. Chronically potholed roads make transport slow and expensive. Fake fertiliser has previously devastated crops, while toxic feed ruined one dairy farm. But for a group of 13...

( The Guardian )- Several hundred Gazans went to the cinema on Saturday for the first time in more than 30 years, albeit for one night only. The long-abandoned Samer cinema in Gaza City, the oldest in the strip but closed for decades, hosted a special screening of a film about Palestinians...

Israel has prevented vital solar panels from operating in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, a report has found.  Villagers in Jub al-Dib have been deprived of basic necessities since before the Israeli occupation began more than 50 years ago. That began to change when...

A serious humanitarian crisis is looming as the United Nations food agency today announced cutting daily rations of thousands of Burundi and Congolese refugees in Tanzania to cope with drying funds. The World Food Programme said today it has reduced daily food rations for 320,000 refugees in...