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Thursday 27th November
In Chad many families are struggling to cook as the price of charcoal has rocketed in the past few months. Normally a 10 kg sack costs about 4000 francs or about $10, of late they were selling at about $22. The spike in price appears to have been caused by the government's attempts to reduce charcoal production to protect the environment, as Celeste Hicks reports.
Monday 24th November
Ghanaians go to the polls on 7th December for a hotly contested parliamentary and presidential election. The main contenders are the incumbent New Patriotic Party, NPP, led by Nana Akufo-Addo, and the former governing party the National Democratic Congress, NDC led by John Atta-Mills. There's also been an energetic campaign from Pa Kwesi Ndoum flagbearer of the smaller Convention Peoples Party, the CPP. So how do everyday people see the coming election and what issues motivate them? Our reporter David Amanor went out on the streets of Accra to seek some opinions.
Weekend feature
Torture in African prisons - An indepth look at the problem of prisoner mistreatment in African prisons.
Friday 21st November
The Samosa festival is about the fusion of African and Asian cultures in east Africa which has been simmering for centuries now - but often boils over into prejudice on both sides. The Samosa festival wants to celebrate the positive - as Wairimu Githahi reports.
Thursday 20th November
Our reporter Thomas Fessy has gone behind rebel lines in the east of the DR Congo to find out what life is like for civilians there.
Wednesday 19th November
The first home grown women's magazine has been launched in Mozambique. It's called Essencial - Essential - and it came about because of the vision of Milva Santos. She told our reporter, Jose Tembe more about the publication.
Tuesday 18th November
The attention of the football world was fixed firmly last night on the ancient Moroccan city of Fes. Global superstars Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldo lead teams in a charity match organised by the United Nations Development Program. The game was organised to highlight the fight against poverty. It's an annual event but the first time it has taken place outside Europe and our reporter James Copnall went along to the match.
Monday 17th November
Many of the troubled DR Congo's citizens are living in exile far from their homes and separated from their loved ones. The BBC's Wairimu Gitahi met two of them in Nairobi and heard their stories.
Friday 14th November
In the United States, a leading academic library at the prestigious Northwestern University has began collecting Barack Obama memorabilia from Africa. Dubbed 'Africa's response to Obama', the materials include songs, bumper stickers, t-shirts, books and posters featuring the president-elect. It is the first such collection spurred by the election of a United States president. David Easterbrook is the head of the Herskovits Library of African Studies, he told Paul Bakibinga more.
Wednesday 12th November
Thousands of villagers from the north east of DR Congo have been fleeing attacks by the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army, seeking shelter in neighbouring Sudan. The rebels have reportedly abducted some two hundred children in both the DR Congo and southern Sudan, prompting fears that the LRA are recruiting ahead of a fresh offensive. Peter Martell has been to visit some refugees in the Western Equatoria region on southern Sudan.
Tuesday 11th November
Schools in South Africa are struggling to cope with a shortage of specialised teachers for the coming academic year. This coincides with accusations that the government is unwilling to utilise qualified teachers from neighbouring Zimbabwe who have fled the political and economic situation there. Mpho Lakaje has been visiting schools in Johannesburg.
Friday 7th November
The United Nations has an incomplete estimate of 25,000 people who've made the perilous journey acorss the Gulf of Aden and onto the Arabian Peninsular this year. Of that 16 000 of them are Somali. Our reporter in Mogdishu, Mohamed Olad hassan has met a man who had a lucky escape.
Thursday 6th November
African Americans were almost unanimous in their desire to put Obama in the White House. But not Mike Blatso - a black Taxi driver in Chicago - he wanted John McCain to prevail. He spoke to Joseph Warungu.
Monday 3rd November
On the day before American goes to the polls, we go to Barack Obama's grandmother's house in Kogelo - western Kenya. Neighbours and supporters have begun gathering outside the family compound. The BBC's Muliro Telewa is also at the compound and he speaks to Audrey Brown.
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