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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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