Can sniffer dogs save elephants?

In 1989, a rapid decline in the African elephant population spurred the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species to institute a worldwide ban on the trade of ivory. The…

Peacekeeper chief resigns over sex claims

The head of U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic has resigned following allegations that peacekeepers have sexually exploited civilians there, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters Wednesday.

The beheading of a Croatian hostage shows group’s reach.

‘Think like a man’: Worst ad ever?

Bic South Africa sure learned how to pen an apology in a hurry this week.

Nigerian hospital live tweets heart surgery

A Nigerian hospital has live-tweeted an operation to repair a hole in the heart of an eight year old girl.

Airbnb looks at Africa for its next big push

Prices to hunt animals

Dozens killed in Nigeria explosion

At least 47 people were killed and some 60 others injured in an explosion Tuesday that struck a market in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, according to a hospital source and…

Teaching elephants to ‘go wild’

Painfully thin and bearing the bloody marks of would-be poachers, little Simotua was barely alive when he was found wandering, lost and alone, through central Kenya's Rumuruti Forest.

Has Nefertiti’s tomb been found?

USAfrica: BUHARI affirms WAR IS ON against those who stole Nigeria’s wealth; “will be in court in a matter of weeks”

Special to USAfricaonline.com,  and USAfrica multimedia networks, Houston. Follow USAfrica at Facebook.com/USAfricaChido , Facebook.com/USAfrica247 and Twitter.com/Chido247  The resolve of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, retired army General, that the prosecution of persons who have stolen national resources will begin…

‘We knew this is how he would die’

Brent Stapelkamp is looking for Jericho. He raises a blue VHF receiver and twirls it above his head. All we hear is static.

‘We are here and we’re going nowhere’

The photographer giving people a voice

Top Instagrammer Steven Chikosi is on a mission to tell stories of daily life in Zimbabwe.

Tanzanian soap company scrubs up