Now smartphones in Uganda are helping thousands of poor farmers to track new farming technologies, treatment for their animal, weather patterns, market prices and best bargains.
An indigenous group in Ontario, Canada, has been pushing for what they say are basic human rights. They have just achieved an important win in their aim to end what they say is the isolation of Shoal Lake. The 40km-long Freedom Road has just opened and it links the community with the Trans-Canada Highway. But the Idle No More movement is still fighting for the equal sharing of water. They have used protests, online activism and blockades to draw attention to their situation. Daniel Lak reports from Shoal Lake in Canada.
A Nigerian farmer is celebrating a landmark victory against oil giant Shell. A court in the Netherlands found Europe's largest oil company responsible for failing to prevent pollution on his land. Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege reports from the Niger Delta.
Kenyans will be heading to the polls on March 4, in the first general election since 2007. More than a thousand people were killed that year in post-election violence.
A former Colombian prostitute narrates the story of her life and how she managed to transform it, overcoming extreme poverty, drug addiction, and sexual abuse among others.
