VIDEO: Oil threat to mountain gorillas

 Organisers tell how Julio Ludago (centre) a professional mountain guide at Mt. Kilimanjaro will attempt  beat world record on September 27th 2015 when he ascends and descends Mt Kilimanjaro via Umbwe route – Western breach in less than 6 hours, 56 minutes and 24 seconds which is the current world record held by Swiss-Ecuadorian climber Karl Egloff. To read more CLICK HERE.  

The life and death of zoologist Dian Fossey

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has attended the naming ceremony of 24 baby mountain gorillas born in the country this year.

The BBC's Martin Patience gains rare access to the city of Maiduguri at the heart of Nigeria's Islamist insurgency.

As small-scale fishing on South-Africa's west coast declines, fishermen in Saldanha Bay are concerned their way of life may disappear entirely.

Nigeria's president has said there is no question of swapping any of the girls kidnapped by the violent Islamist group, Boko Haram, for prisoners of the insurgency held by the government.

The Islamist militant group Boko Haram said it was behind a huge bombing last month

In Conakry, the capital of Guinea, people are trying to adapt to the threat of Ebola, as Ibrahima Diane reports

President Barack Obama told the UN than the spread of Ebola in Africa represented a "threat to regional and global security".