'Men grow tobacco for drinking money but women feed families' - Ugandan farmer
Women in Africa account for up to 80 percent of the continent's smallholder farmers and produce 90 percent of its food, yet own only about 15 percent of the land
Tanzania to quiz public officials who dodge rules on asset disclosure
Ethics Commissioner says more than 300 politicians will be checked to see whether they declared the true value of their wealth
Food prices soar in Cameroon's cities as water runs short
Families are cutting back on meals as harvests fail, while the government struggles to shore up urban water supplies
Fear of attack stops South Sudanese returning home despite truce
Up to 78,000 people have taken refuge in U.N. bases in South Sudan, including in the capital Juba, and 145,000 have crossed into neighbouring countries
World Bank probes Tata tea project over worker abuse in India
Investigators sent in after NGOs allege labour and human rights abuses at tea plantations jointly financed by World Bank and Tata Global Beverages with aim of promoting worker shareholding
Transparency watchdogs ahead of the pack on G20 lobbying
Campaigners for greater financial transparency are determined to keep up the pressure on world leaders to do more to stop tax evasion and the hiding of assets offshore in tax havens, in order to help developing economies keep revenue at home and wean themselves off aid
UK spends millions of pounds of aid money at home -paper
About eight percent of the 5.4 billion pounds Britain gave in bilateral overseas aid in 2012 was not sent to developing countries but was spent on administering the aid programme and cancelling or rescheduling debts - paper
Microsoft buys carbon credits from Madagascar rainforest
The sale of carbon credits to the tech giant will help protect the Makira National Park, one of Madagascar's most pristine rainforest ecosystems
Somali police tell rape victim to wash her blood off their floor and go home
Personal stories: Gang raped in camps where police did nothing to stop attacks, many rape victims had nowhere to turn for help
Somali government must protect, not arrest and harass, rape victims – HRW
Soldiers and gangs rape women in displaced people’s camps in Mogadishu with impunity, and police persecute those who report such attacks when they should protect them, HRW says