Oldest co-op in crisis

A man believed to be the oldest school pupil in Nigeria has died at the age of 94, his family says.

A 73-year-old South African heart surgeon becomes the oldest person to swim the English Channel.

Ninety-year-old Kenyan student Priscilla Sitienei says she wants to inspire children, especially girls, to get an education.

When you think of a 85-year old man, an image of a bed ridden person, waiting for death  might come to mind . If your image changes a bit, it might be of a person who stays at home, plays with their grandchildren and uses some of their time to do some gardening if they have the strength. But Robert Wheeler does not embody either of  these stereotypes.  Although the name ‘Robert Wheeler’ hasn’t made headlines in Tanzania, it has become quite popular all over the...

Kersley Appou, a 43-year-old from Mauritius, replaces Roger Milla as the oldest man to represent an African national team.

The Belgian director of the Democratic Republic of Congo's famous Virunga National Park is shot and critically wounded in an ambush.

>Criminals posing as students have turned the country’s most respected and oldest university into a den of robbers—which poses a security threat to thousands of students and their lecturers, thanks to security lapses.

Stones tools that are 3.3 million years old have been unearthed pre-dating the earliest-known humans in the Homo genus.