‘Surviving R. Kelly’ Kicked Off A #MeToo Movement In East Africa
Ethiopian women are using Instagram to encourage their community to confront an issue usually greeted with silence.
View ArticleLast Of The Giants: What Killed Off Madagascar’s Megafauna A Thousand...
A series of new studies sheds light on the population crash and extinction of the giant birds, lemurs and more that roamed the island until around A.D. 700-1000.
View ArticleIn A Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant...
Overuse of the medicines is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world antibiotics are dispensed with no prescription required.
View ArticleRhino Poacher Killed By Elephant And Eaten By Lions, Officials Say
A man suspected of being a rhino poacher was killed last week by an elephant and his remains devoured by a pride of lions at a South African park, officials said.
View ArticleSouth Africa Has An Anti-Immigration Problem, And It Looks A Lot Like The...
With a crucial election looming, populist and nationalist rhetoric put forward by world leaders like President Trump is making xenophobia in South Africa worse.
View ArticleVanilla Fever
How did hunger for the humble vanilla pod lead to greed, crime and riches?
View ArticleFighting Ebola When Mourners Fight The Responders
An Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo — the second-largest in history — is escalating in part because locals don’t trust health workers and government officials.
View ArticleThe ‘Sacred Forests’ Of Northern Ethiopia
They were found through a quirk of the region’s geopolitical history, which left a photographic trail of WWII aerial photos and declassified Cold War-era spy satellite images.
View ArticleThe Rich World’s Electronic Waste, Dumped In Ghana
The burning and dismantling of old electronics make the city’s Agbogbloshie area noxious for the 80,000 people who live or work there.
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