The world-famous Dutch floral and houseplant auctions realized 4-billion Euros in 2008 - an increase of 0,25 percent. In the current economic climate, people spend more money on prettying up their houses with bright blooms and plants, and less on luxury.

Female farmer Mwanahuseni Hasani of Tanzania has lost her income when the younger of her two cows was stolen recently. The farmer had taken out a microloan through the Farm Friends organisation and is devastated by the theft of the heifer.

For the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 that lasted one-hundred days, former Rwandan Colonel Theoneste Bagosora has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

The number of Somalian pirates are growing - and their range has expanded from Somalian waters: they now are also hunting merchant vessels off the coasts of Tanzania and Kenya.

AMSTERDAM - Dutch labour MP Martijn van Dam has asked the world's major cellphone manufacturers to stop using the Congolese mineral coltan - to stop child-slavery.

One of the most successful self-help projects in Tanzania is the Lease-A-Cow project with its 110 participating female farmers.

A preventable disease kills nearly one million people worldwide, especially children under five and African countries, who don’t have anti-malaria medicines.

A team of Brigham Young University student engineers designed an innovative and cost-effective apparatus that enables poor East African women to turn abundant coconuts into valuable coconut oil.

Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate.

Senseless killings continue to create havoc in the Albino community in some rural parts of Tanzania. Local authority has found yet another Albino person, brutally murdered last week and his body parts taken for apparent witchcraft purposes.