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.
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.