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Critic Milo Miles reviews the reissue of The Explorer Series featuring music from around the world that was originally released from 1967 to 1984. The Explorer Series is now being re-released by region. The first is 13 CDs from Africa (on the Nonesuch label).

Ivan Watson reports that residents of Gueckedou, Guinea, are now returning to their homes after Guinean government troops recaptured the city from rebels this week. The town is situated along one of the most dangerous borders in Africa, and fighting in the area continues.

Robert talks to Pieter Timm, diver with the Triton Dive Trotters at the Sodwana Bay National Park in South Africa, about his sighting of a coelacanth, a type of fish that has existed for 360 million years. Timm said that he first saw the fish in October while giving a diving lesson. Later he returned with a team of divers and took pictures.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Mike Fay, an explorer and biologist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, who spent 15 months flying in a small plane across Africa and recording environmental data.

John Prendergast is Special Adviser to the President of the International Crisis Group. He has 20 years of experience attempting to resolve conflicts in Africa, and shaping U.S. foreign policy toward the region.

How do you get to Africa on a shoestring budget? NPR's Tavis Smiley discusses tips for making the most of your trip -- and tracing African ancestry -- with attorney James White, co-author of the book Roots Recovered.

Hidden in the dense forest of central Africa lies a clearing where each day and night, dozens of elephants gather. African forest elephants are elusive, and such a clearing is rare. NPR's Alex Chadwick takes you there on the latest Radio Expedition, for Morning Edition.

As voters in Nigeria, Africa's largest democracy, go to the polls, a third party candidate threatens to upset the status quo.

Earlier, a group of soldiers had appeared on Benin 's state TV Sunday to announce the dissolution of the government in an apparent coup, the latest of many in West Africa.

Two-time Peabody Award-winner Peter Breslow is a senior producer for NPR's newsmagazine Weekend Edition. He has been with the program since 1992. Prior to that, he was a producer for NPR's All Things Considered.