September 09, 2003
Africa: Protecting Communities to Protect the Planet
Delegates from over 170 countries are meeting this week in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the guiding principles of conservation and Protected Area management at the fifth World… Read more »
March 15, 2003
Central Africa: African Rainforests Need Protection, Congressmen Told
Congo Basin forests that were virtually untouched ten years ago are now threatened by increased logging of tropical hardwoods and expanding populations, the U.S. House of… Read more »
February 12, 2003
Botswana: Conserving Danny, Hector and Chinga - Botswanas Rhinos
What you first notice about Danny and his friend is their size. They are huge, and surprisingly nimble and graceful in movement. No, not sumo wrestlers, but rhinos. Read more »
February 10, 2003
Southern Africa: The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park: A Model for Africa?
The Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, spanning the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, is the largest, and most ambitious effort in Africa to combine conservation,… Read more »
January 14, 2003
Senegal: Popenguine - Women Join Hands to Revive a Community Resource
Wolimata Thiao is a towering, one-woman, tour de force. She has mobilised the women of Popenguine and surrounding villages, north of the Senegalese capital, Dakar, to reclaim and… Read more »
November 28, 2002
Kenya: Hotel Bombing Kills Eleven in Kenya
Seven Kenyans and two Israeli tourists were killed in a terrorist bomb blast as they sat down to breakfast Thursday, when a Landrover crashed into the lobby of the Paradise Hotel… Read more »
September 06, 2002
Southern Africa: Mixed Results From Ecotourism in Southern Africa
When the United Nations declared 2002 the Year of Ecotourism, the world body was recognising what is now a common assumption in many parts of the developing world: that this form… Read more »
March 05, 2002
Africa: 'Why Do Our Leaders Hate Us So Much?'
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu is the senior legal officer for Interights, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, based in London. He is attending the third… Read more »
October 25, 2001
Africa: Strike Deepens Air Afrique Woes
Workers with the multinational airline, Air Afrique, began an indefinite strike this week to demand payment of salary arrears. A few months ago, West African leaders and the French… Read more »
June 21, 2001
Africa: Show Off Your Photography and Be Eligible for a Prize
Our special coverage of the African Solar Eclipse of 2001 has relied on photographs sent to us from a Williams College expedition to gather scientific data on the sun's corona.… Read more »
February 18, 2000
Africa: Angolan Journalist Barred from Travel to Washington
Rafael Marques, an Angolan journalist and human rights advocate who spent 41 days in a Luanda prison late last year, was reportedly barred by his government from traveling to… Read more »