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Tag: Africa

Terrorism on the Rise in Europe, Africa, and Syria While the World Struggles with Record Conflict Numbers
War

Terrorism on the Rise in Europe, Africa, and Syria While the World Struggles with Record Conflict Numbers

March 10, 2025March 9, 2025

A recent report found that deaths by terrorism have risen to their highest levels in Africa, while also recording…

Our Ancestors Show How to Possibly Create a More Egalitarian Society: Raise More Athletes
Human Sciences

Our Ancestors Show How to Possibly Create a More Egalitarian Society: Raise More Athletes

December 9, 2024

The gender division of labor among hunter-gatherers has been a topic of heated debate for decades, as much at…

Secret Report Shows Another Terror War Was Fought Without Any Coherent Plan: Somalia
War

Secret Report Shows Another Terror War Was Fought Without Any Coherent Plan: Somalia

March 12, 2024

It’s currently the longest foreign conflict in which US troops are still engaged. Today it is still almost a…

Critically-Endangered West African Lion Going from Strength to Strength in Niokolo Koba, Senegal
ArchivesConservation

Critically-Endangered West African Lion Going from Strength to Strength in Niokolo Koba, Senegal

March 10, 2023July 13, 2023

In a thrilling sign of recovery for the Critically-Endangered West African lion, camera trap footage and photos of a…

Choosing Ancienne Over Avantgard With a Journey Through the Dahar, Tunisia
ArchivesTravel

Choosing Ancienne Over Avantgard With a Journey Through the Dahar, Tunisia

January 24, 2023July 17, 2023

In southeast Tunisia lies a landscape marriage between generations of subsistence human activity and the desert ecosystem; as artificial…

Date Palms Built the Modern Adventure Captial of the Tunisian Sahara
ArchivesTravel

Date Palms Built the Modern Adventure Captial of the Tunisian Sahara

January 4, 2023June 30, 2023

Tozeur, a city in the south of Tunisia is probably one of the most unique to be found anywhere…

More in Congress Want Oversight of Ukraine Aid: Nigeria Says They’re Ending Up with Sahel Terrorists
ArchivesForeign Policy

More in Congress Want Oversight of Ukraine Aid: Nigeria Says They’re Ending Up with Sahel Terrorists

December 5, 2022August 13, 2023

Earlier in the year, calls to unify the disparate efforts to arm and fund Ukraine led to the Ukraine…

Declaring the Killing of an Unnamed al-Shabaab Leader, the US Briefly Highlights America’s Forgotten War
ArchivesWar

Declaring the Killing of an Unnamed al-Shabaab Leader, the US Briefly Highlights America’s Forgotten War

October 4, 2022January 24, 2024

Story at a glance… An important leader of al-Shabaab was killed recently. It’s the most recent event of a…

African Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Ogiek People On Reparations and Land Rights in Kenya’s Forests
ArchivesPolicy

African Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Ogiek People On Reparations and Land Rights in Kenya’s Forests

July 4, 2022July 3, 2023

Story at a glance… An African human rights court ruled in favor of the Ogiek people of Kenya against…

Tiny Collections of Lichen and Microbes May Keep Half the World’s Dust From Blowing Away
ArchivesEarth Sciences

Tiny Collections of Lichen and Microbes May Keep Half the World’s Dust From Blowing Away

May 16, 2022October 28, 2023

If you go to a national park in one of America’s deserts, you may see signs on the hiking…

Rissani: The Little-Known City of Kings, Dates, and Caravans in the Moroccan Sahara
ArchivesTravel

Rissani: The Little-Known City of Kings, Dates, and Caravans in the Moroccan Sahara

May 5, 2022July 5, 2023

Go to a bus station in Fes after dark. Tell them you want to go to Rissani, and then…

Teenage Elephants Act Like Delinquents If There Are No Bull Males Around
Earth Sciences

Teenage Elephants Act Like Delinquents If There Are No Bull Males Around

December 22, 2021June 28, 2023

PICTURED: Adolescent elephants bothering some hippos. PC: Connie Allen, Univ. of Exeter. Released. New research has found that the…

Glimpse Traditional Moroccan Life with These Three Non-Tourist Destinations
ArchivesTravel

Glimpse Traditional Moroccan Life with These Three Non-Tourist Destinations

November 29, 2021August 12, 2023

Story at a glance… As the most-visited African country, it can be hard to dodge the tourist traps in…

Literature and Character Pulls Africa and Europe Together in Tangier
ArchivesTravel

Literature and Character Pulls Africa and Europe Together in Tangier

November 15, 2021July 20, 2023

The city of Paul Bowles; the city of Mohamed Choukri; and a city that has been used numerous times…

War

CIA Air Base in Niger Sahara Grows Larger — Another Drone War to Follow?

March 9, 2021

PICTURED: The base’s original footprint has doubled in size. Photo credit: Planet Labs. Published. First noticed by satellite imagery…

Troops to Leave Somalia Only to Remain in East Africa
War

Troops to Leave Somalia Only to Remain in East Africa

December 21, 2020

STUTTGART, Germany. December 19th, 2020. President Trump’s desire to get all troops out of Somalia, as World at Large…

Trump Allegedly Wants Troops Out of Somalia — America’s Forgotten Terror Battleground
War

Trump Allegedly Wants Troops Out of Somalia — America’s Forgotten Terror Battleground

October 15, 2020

 JOWHAR, Somalia. September 22nd, 2012. PICTURED: A Ugandan soldier of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) looks on…

Conservation is Expensive: Rwanda and The Seychelles Show How to Make Green to Save Green
Conservation

Conservation is Expensive: Rwanda and The Seychelles Show How to Make Green to Save Green

July 1, 2020

A new report from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature finds conservation in Africa is in need…

Banning the Wildlife Trade Could be Good News for Certain Animals, and a Death Sentence for Millions of Humans
Environment

Banning the Wildlife Trade Could be Good News for Certain Animals, and a Death Sentence for Millions of Humans

April 10, 2020

Kenya. January 2019. PICTURED: Black rhino in Masai Mara’s green season. Photo credit: Kandukuru Nagarjun. CC 2.0 After research…

A Few Tweaks to Ensure the Best of a Classic Ghanaian Itinerary to Cape Coast
Travel

A Few Tweaks to Ensure the Best of a Classic Ghanaian Itinerary to Cape Coast

March 12, 2020

PICTURED: The bustling fishing industry off the Atlantic coast of Cape Coast, Ghana. 2019 brought swathes of enthusiastic, warm-hearted…

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Italy Quietly Tries to Renew Military Cooperation Agreement with Israel, Law firm Notices and Objects

Andy Corbley May 23, 2025

Signed in 2002 and entering into force in 2005, few Italian citizens will know what has resulted from a…

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Houthis Defeat the Americans, Claim Destruction of Another F/A-18 and Strike Israel with Drones

Andy Corbley May 8, 2025

Yemen has claimed responsibility for an attack on the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier that caused a second F/A-18…

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Former Georgia Senator Joins Trump’s Kettle of China Hawks as US Ambassador to Beijing

Andy Corbley May 1, 2025

Former Georgia Senator and businessman David Perdue was recently confirmed with a bipartisan vote as the new US Ambassador…

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