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Faith leaders, Pygmies join forces in fight for Congo forest
May 31, 2018 (AFP)
Wednesday's talks in Kinshasa sought to raise awareness among "various religious denominations" about the Congo Basin forest, a biodiversity hotspot and climate...
Prehistoric teeth dating back 2 million years reveal details on ancient Africa's climate
May 30, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, lead author Michaela Ecker, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at U of T, alongside a...
Help wanted: UN mission struggles in troubled C. Africa
May 30, 2018 (AFP)
So far, just 400 have arrived -- a worrying sign of the problems that the UN mission, known by its French acronym MINUSCA, is having in coaxing countries into s...
China, Burkina Faso establish ties following Taiwan snub
May 26, 2018 (AFP)
A communique on establishing relations was signed in Beijing by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterpart Alpha Barry. Burkina Faso broke off ties wi...
France to pump 65 million euros into African startups
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
Macron made the announcement at the third edition of the VivaTech trade fair, which brings together innovators, investors and entrepreneurs. This year VivaTech,...
China, Russia rise in C. Africa as Western influence shrinks
May 24, 2018 (AFP)
Ranked at the very bottom of the UN's 188-nation Human Development Index, CAR is mired in poverty and strife. Most of the country is in the hands of militia gro...
Pay-backs to Africa from the Paris Agreement's temperature targets
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
However, projected changes of climate extremes in Africa remain little explored. Particularly in the context of the Paris Agreement's goal to limit global warmi...
African nations vow to recover stolen assets
May 20, 2018 (AFP)
But meanwhile his country ranks among the top destinations for stolen assets from African countries. Nigeria and ex-British colonies in Africa hope to change th...
12 civilians killed in Mali market attack
May 20, 2018 (AFP)
The attack took place Saturday in the town of Boulekessi near the border with Burkina Faso. "Malian troops under the G5 Sahel command are at the centre of this ...
In Lagos, the 'Venice of Africa' fights for survival
May 17, 2018 (AFP)
Makoko, to be blunt, is an environmental eyesore. It is a vast slum of wooden shacks built on stilts in the brackish, blackish, thickly-polluted lagoon in the h...
Savanna chimpanzees suffer from heat stress
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
Even bipedalism, the defining hominid characteristic, has been argued by some to be linked with the transition into savanna environments. In a paper, the resear...
Wildfires may cause long-term health problems for endangered orangutans
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
In 2015, Wendy Erb, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers, was studying male orangutans in the forests of Indonesian Borneo whe...
Hippo excrement triggering fish kills in African rivers
May 16, 2018 (UPI)
According to a new survey of the hippo population and river health in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, the mammals excrete 9.3 tons of waste into the Mara Rive...
DR Congo park suspends tourism after kidnapping and murder
May 15, 2018 (AFP)
"The Virunga National Park has decided to suspend tourist visits until Monday, June 4 because of the security incident that occurred on Friday, May 11, 2018," a...
Kidnapped UK tourists in DR Congo released
May 13, 2018 (AFP)
Their vehicle was attacked on Friday in the Virunga National Park in North Kivu province, a famed haven for gorillas and other endangered species. Their park gu...
US military reviews Somalia raid after five killed
May 11, 2018 (AFP)
"We are aware of reports alleging civilian casualties resulting from this operation, and we take these reports seriously," AFRICOM said in a statement. "Africa ...
Ex-Gambia generals deny desertion
May 02, 2018 (AFP)
General Umpa Mendy and General Ansumana Tamba sought refuge in Equatorial Guinea alongside Jammeh in January 2017 after his brutal 22-year rule came to an end. ...
Lake Victoria biodiversity being 'decimated': conservationists
Apr 30, 2018 (AFP)
A fresh report backed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessed the extinction risk of 651 freshwater species like fish, molluscs, d...
In first for Tunisia, police and soldiers head to polls
Apr 29, 2018 (AFP)
Most Tunisians will vote on May 6 in the municipal polls -- the first since the North African country's 2011 revolution -- but members of the security forces ca...
Double curse: After drought, Kenya's Dadaab refugee camps hit by floods
Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)
Any entertainment is welcome in Dadaab, one of the biggest refugee bases in the world. An estimated 235,000 people, most of them Somalis, live a bleak life larg...
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