An elephant grazing in Kimana Conservancy, Kenya.
As the Maasai people of Kenya seek to expand their agricultural developments, the lives of one of Africa’s greatest creatures are being severely disrupted.
A herd of Masai giraffe towering over zebras in Ruaha National Park, Tanzania.
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The number of giraffes in Africa has dropped by 40% over the past 30 years, but the reasons for this remain largely unknown.
Candles in memory of those killed in Nairobi’s Westgate Mall attack in September 2013.
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Containing Al-Shabaab in Kenya doesn’t directly reduce the group’s standing inside Somalia.
The Zanzibar Red Colobus is endemic to Tanzania.
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Tanzania faces the challenge of conserving forests in a developing country with a rapidly expanding population.
Research suggests that women enterprises in Tanzania are shy to take up business loans.
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Women-owned small business in Tanzania stay away from formal loans because of their negative beliefs about loans.
Heavy rainfall recently devastated large swathes of Kerala, India.
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Green infrastructure can be a valuable tool in helping vulnerable communities to face the double threat of flooding and drought.
Beehive fences can help improve human-elephant coexistence.
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There is indeed merit to using beehives to keep elephants from eating and destroying crops.
Scientists must remember that farmers are focused on the best return from their inputs with little risk as possible.
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Soil scientists have rarely gone the extra mile to translate their knowledge into forms that can be integrated into economic decision making.
Conservation groups are organizing soccer games to help bridge the gaps between park rangers and communities.
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Environmental organizations are using games to engage communities on conservation matters.
In parts of the Maasai Mara its not uncommon to see more than 30 tourist vehicles at a sighting.
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New findings show that the numbers of cubs a cheetah is able to rear is lower in areas that receive lots of tourists.
Simon Kingori, a survivor of the 1998 bomb blast at the US embassy in Nairobi prays at the memorial park in the city.
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Two decades after terrorists bombed the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Kenya has implemented a slew of measures to counter terrorism.
A clinic in northern Tanzania which has one of the lowest facility birth rates in the country.
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Tanzania would like more than 80%of births to be overseen by skilled health care providers
Parts of Mozambique are under attack from an Islamist militia that wants to uphold sharia law.
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A guerrilla movement in Mozambique could upend the government’s plans for stability and prosperity.
Policemen posted to prevent a campaign rally in Zanzibar in 2005.
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In Tanzania today, political space has shrunk to the point where protests are suppressed before they emerge
A woman harvests groundnuts in Malawi. Land ownership does not automatically empower women.
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We found that even when women own land, their husbands are still perceived as household heads.
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Many poachers continue to poach to improve their incomes, rather than just make ends meet.
Circumcision of both boys and girls is practiced by the Maasai in Tanzania.
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Efforts to discourage girls from being cut in Tanzania have changed the cultural meaning and practices around the ceremonial rite of passage.
President of Uganda Yoweri Museveni refuses to relinquish power.
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Not all African leaders are willing to be swept by the democratic reforms of the early 2000s.
Young people are the mirror image of the adult world around them.
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Some young East Africans believe that there is nothing wrong with corruption – except in Rwanda.
Reconstruction of a Permian swamp.
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Plants, in their fossil forms, can reveal a great deal about past environments and climates.