The DNA detectives who are elephants’ last hope against poachers
WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGE: Poachers kill around 20,000 African elephants a year and there was a surge of 9,000% in rhino poaching in South Africa [read more…]
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A botched decolonization: inside Cameroon’s civil war
In Cameroon, civil war is brewing along linguistic lines. Its origins lie in the botched decolonization of the country’s anglophone territory, but President Paul Biya’s [read more…]
China’s overfishing of Africa: The lure and the lies
Scientists and campaigners warn that factories in coastal villages are wreaking environmental and economic havoc. Before the arrival of fishmeal factories in the Gambia, Musa [read more…]
Malawi albinos kidnapped and sacrificed by witchdoctor gangs on the hunt for election charms
It was a real-life Sophie’s choice: With the albino-hunting gang advancing through her house, Misa Maulidi had seconds to decide which of her children to [read more…]
The Serengeti-Mara squeeze — One of the world’s most iconic ecosystems under pressure
Increased human activity around one of Africa’s most iconic ecosystems is ‘squeezing the wildlife in its core’, damaging habitation and disrupting the migration routes of [read more…]
The ugly history of Africa’s most famous bag
In 1983, Nigeria expelled two million undocumented West African migrants, half of whom were from Ghana. The sturdy, checked bags into which they packed their [read more…]
Queer love in the time of homophobia
It was New Year’s Eve when James*, 29, agreed to meet up with a man he had connected with on the dating app Grindr. They [read more…]
Why Cyclone Idai should be a wake-up call to for us all
While many politicians, world leaders and big corporations speak about the future effects of climate change, poor and impoverished nations are already struggling to battle [read more…]
Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon Has Displaced 430,000 People, Could Leave A Whole Generation Illiterate
LUM’S story is becoming common across the country’s Northwest and Southwest regions, where the conflict between Anglophone separatists and Francophone armed forces that’s claimed hundreds [read more…]
The tree helping Kenyan farmers beat drought and poverty
KIBWEZI, Kenya, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Worried that a drought could wipe out his crops back in 2000, farmer Jonathan Kituku Mung’ala remembered meeting agricultural [read more…]