Africa

An ivory carver at work in Guangzhou. Such carvings can reach well over £600 in the city's market

Demand for illegal ivory soars in booming China

Twenty years after a worldwide ban, there's a new black-market trade in elephant tusks from Africa

Inside Africa

Kangalicious: Let your dress do the talking

Saturday, 14 November 2009

There are two rules to wearing a kanga: it must be colourful, and it must be inscribed with a proverb. Daniel Howden reports on a garment sweeping the globe.

Will the lights go out on South Africa's World Cup?

Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Daniel Howden: A race row at the top of the national power company has left it without a leader

Somali pirates in record attack

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Somali pirates yesterday attacked an oil tanker and fired automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase activity off East Africa.

Tsvangirai ally faces death penalty as trial begins

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's ally Roy Bennett went on trial accused of terrorism yesterday in a case that has stoked tensions in the unity government with President Robert Mugabe.

Foreign Office warns Mann to 'keep quiet'

Sunday, 8 November 2009

Powerful people have an interest in the mercenary behind the 'Wonga Coup' keeping his own counsel.

UN attempts to slow the new scramble for Africa

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Alarm over scale of foreign holdings and secretive land deals by wealthy nations

British 'Indiana Jones' finds missing legs of 900-year-old Buddhist statue

Saturday, 7 November 2009

It sounds like the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: an archaeology professor with little more to go on than a yellowing photograph discovers part of a 900-year-old statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process.