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New York Magazine4h
How Did a Pair of Football Buddies From Utah Join a Coup in the Congo?
Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...
Mongabay News5h
Mining spill highlights need to protect Zambia’s vital Kafue River & its fish
Biologist Mike Ross, balanced in a canoe beneath a star-filled sky in central Zambia, slaps the water with a net attached to ...
The South African on MSN5h
River meets sea: 5 estuary towns in SA with that soft-water calm
South Africa’s estuary towns are all about the calm - from Kosi Bay to Kenton-on-Sea, here are five river towns you must ...
The Impossible Build on MSN14h
Africa's Record-Breaking Mega Dam: Construction Unveiled
Africa's Record Breaking Mega Dam - Construction UnveiledA closer look at Africa’s latest hydroelectric project breaking ...
30 years after the Srebrenica massacre, ‘never again’ is a slogan as empty as it is old
COMMENT: Thirty years since Srebrenica, the second genocide of the 90s, it is clear that ‘never again’ is a slogan as empty ...
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)1d
Africa's Forgotten Fishes: One in four freshwater fish species in Africa threatened with extinction
An estimated 26 per cent of Africa’s freshwater fish species are threatened (including those assessed as Critically ...
Sacred sites in South Africa can protect natural heritage and culture: here’s how
In the province of KwaZulu-Natal, there are Mazizini and Mabasa forests, regarded as sacred by local communities. In the Free ...
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Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Learn about sources of continued violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and how the United Nations, African Union, and neighboring countries are struggling to curtail it.