The villagers of Tafi Atome, in Ghana's Volta Region, grew up listening to tales of their spiritual links to the 1 000 or so mona monkeys that inhabit the surrounding lush forest.
Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users "easily express themselves". Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters for a small group of users.
Ghana on Saturday won a maritime dispute with its neighbor Ivory Coast as both countries lay claim to oil fields in the Gulf of Guinea within which they both share borders.
Police building in Guinea's bauxite mining town of Boke was burnt on Thursday by rioters following a clash with security forces, according to local Red Cross officials.
Tanzania’s president on Friday ordered the military to build walls around its tanzanite mines and directed the central bank to buy the precious stone to boost reserves - the latest twist in a spat with mining firms over alleged tax evasion.
South Africa has issued a pair of dollar bonds in overseas capital markets worth $2.5 billion to help finance its foreign currency commitments, National Treasury said on Wednesday.
Japan’s Toshiba Corp (6502.T) has selected a group led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital to buy its prized memory chip unit, three people with knowledge of the talks said on Wednesday, the latest dramatic twist to a highly contentious auction.
