Hainikoye hits Accept and a young woman greets him in Hausa, a gravelly language spoken across West Africa’s Sahel region. She has three new cows, and wants to know: Does he have advice on getting them through the lean season?
Hainikoye—a twentysomething agronomist who has “followed animals,” as Sahelians refer to herding, since he first learned to walk—opens an interface on his laptop and clicks on her village in southern Niger, where humped zebu roam the dipping hills and dried-up … Read more
South Africa is not only challenging Israel—it is trying to break the spell of US hegemony.
Palestinians carrying flags and banners gather at the Nelson Mandela Square to demonstrate in support of the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice, on January 10, 2024, in Ramallah, the West Bank.
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Unfortunately for long-suffering Palestinians, the “necessity” of organized violence to slaughter many thousands of civilians
In the past 25 years lion numbers have decreased by 43 per cent throughout Africa.
Here Professor Hans Bauer from Oxford University, who has been studying Africa’s lions throughout this time, argues in The Conversation why trophy hunting is failing to boost the numbers.
Over the past 25 years, I have spent a lot of time counting lions as part of my job. Only last month, I spent three hours with two males – possibly brothers – right next to
In May, 2018, the Nigerian artist Jelili Atiku shouted for help in the lobby of the Musée d’Aquitaine, in Bordeaux. “I want to go home,” he cried. “Benin. Edo . . . Take me back home!” Dressed as a bronze warrior, with limbs bound and a British flag trailing at his heels, he mimed the desperation of an artifact trapped in the museum—which he fled stripped to the waist, revealing metallically painted skin. The performance dramatized Nigeria’s long-frustrated efforts
A freshly dehorned white rhino bull emerges from the grog of a tranquillizer at John Hume’s ranch in South Africa on August 5, 2021.Ed Stoddard/Undark
This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
Three hours outside Johannesburg, the gravel road to John Hume’s home slices through grasslands tinged a parched amber hue as the winter dry season fades. The former hotel mogul owns the world’s largest privately held
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Africa is now in the deadliest stage of its pandemic, and there is little prospect of relief in sight.
The Delta variant is sweeping across the continent. Namibia and Tunisia are reporting more deaths per capita than any other country. Hospitals across the continent are filling up, oxygen
