Officials say five critically endangered eastern black rhinos from wildlife parks in three European countries are ready for a transport back to their natural habitat in Rwanda, where the entire rhino population was wiped out during the genocide in the 1990s.
Read moreA Kenyan court Wednesday found three people guilty of conspiracy to commit a terror attack after phone records and handwriting linked them to the 2015 Garissa University assault that killed 148 people.
Read moreBoeing executives apologized Monday to airlines and families of victims of 737 Max crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as the U.S. plane maker struggled to regain trust of regulators, pilots and the global traveling public.
Read moreBotswana became the latest country to decriminalize gay sex on Tuesday in a landmark case for Africa when the High Court rejected as unconstitutional sections of the penal code punishing same-sex relations with up to seven years in prison.
Read moreA United Nations emergency relief coordinator says more than 2 million men, women and children could die of starvation in Somalia by summer’s end if international aid is not sent quickly to the drought-stricken African country.
Read moreA newly discovered archaeological site in Ethiopia shows modern humans began incorporating stone tools into daily life about 60,000 years earlier than previously thought, suggesting our ancestors independently invented stone tools many times before then, according to a new study published Monday.
Read moreKenya’s High Court ruled 3-0 Friday to uphold colonial era penal code laws criminalizing same-sex relations.
Read moreBotswana has lifted its ban on elephant hunting in a country with the world’s highest number of the animals, a decision that has brought anger from some wildlife protection groups.
Read moreBeheaded corpses. Entrails spilled onto dusty roads. Photos from the civil war raging in his home country Cameroon nauseate the professor. “Sometimes I wake up and on my WhatsApp feed there’s some pictures I cannot even take, I just have to delete, they’re gruesome,” he said.
Read moreA Navy SEAL was sentenced Thursday to one year in military prison on for his role in the 2017 hazing death of an Army Green Beret in Africa.
Read moreA second disaster unfolded on Sunday in northern Mozambique in the wake of Cyclone Kenneth as raging floods killed one person and began to cut off the region’s main city from the outside world. Some 160,000 people were at risk, with more torrential rain forecast for the days ahead.
Read moreThe graceful giraffe and an Arizona wildflower inched closer to receiving endangered protection status, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services agreed Thursday to study threats to the species.
Read moreWhite House senior adviser Ivanka Trump says her father asked her if she was interested in the job of World Bank chief but she passed on it.
Read moreA big blue diamond weighing more than 20 carats has been unveiled in Botswana, where the gem was discovered.
Read moreHerbs can lift a bland soup or zest up a quiche, but now researchers say a batch of medicinal plants found on an island in the Indian Ocean have the potential to stop the spread of esophageal cancer.
Read moreThe death toll from the cyclone that ripped into southern Africa last month is now above 1,000, while the number of cholera cases among survivors has risen above 4,000.
Read moreSouth African police and park officials say a suspected rhinoceros poacher was trampled to death by an elephant and had his body eaten by lions.
Read moreUnited States President Donald Trump on Monday urged Uganda to find the kidnappers of an American tourist who has been freed, amid conflicting reports over whether a ransom was paid for her release.
Read moreThe pilots of a doomed Ethiopian Airlines jet followed all of Boeing’s recommended procedures when the plane started to nose dive but still couldn’t save it, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the Ethiopian government. The plane crashed just six minutes after takeoff, killing all 157 people on board.
Read moreThe grass is always greener on the other side, but what happens when you’re a pastoral cattle farmer and the best grazing grounds are inside the world’s greatest wildlife conservation? Research to reveals how growing human activity on the borders of the great Serengeti-Mara ecosystem in Eastern Africa is impacting the historic migration patterns of wildebeest.
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