Rwandan coffee, Kenyan tea, South African wine and citrus fruits, Namibian beef are part of China's daily life.

Just under a year ago, Alice Posha fled her home in the middle of the night and then watched as it was swept away by floods. 

East African countries should brace themselves for a second round of invasion by the desert locusts in the next one to two months, Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture has warned.

In West Africa, agricultural production tends to fluctuate.

Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman, has popularised the term "zombie idea", which is also a title of his new book – Arguing with Zombies. This term refers to "ideas that keep being killed by evidence, but nonetheless shamble relentlessly forward, essentially because they suit a political agenda".

International aid requested as nearly eight million people in Zimbabwe, or half its population, are declared food insecure.