At least 27 civilians have been killed by members of a notorious rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the army and Red Cross said. The Kivu Security Tracker (KST), which monitors violence in the region via a team of experts on the ground, posted on Twitter to […]
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When Rwanda’s former intelligence chief was found strangled in a plush Johannesburg hotel room, there was only ever one real suspect. Patrick Karegeya spent years dodging assassination attempts evidently set in motion by his childhood schoolmate, Rwanda’s eternal ruler, Paul Kagame. Karegeya even had tapes of former intelligence colleagues plotting […]
The bigger a male gorilla, the better he is at beating his chest to signal to friends and foe just how powerful he is, scientists have confirmed. The impressive drumming sound is, as suspected, a measure of size and strength, a new study shows. Females tune into the patter of […]
Capital: Khartoum Ethnic groups: unspecified Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Fallata Religion: Sunni Muslim, small Christian minority Unemployment: 19.6% (2017 est.) Other Facts Sudan was the largest country in Africa prior to the secession of South Sudan in 2011. It is now the third largest, after Algeria and […]
Four people in Oregon and 23 in Washington are being monitored for the Ebola virus after returning to the US from West Africa, the Oregon Health Authority said on Thursday. The individuals had returned from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where small outbreaks of Ebola have been recorded. […]
Kubaha, a male mountain gorilla in Rwanda, hangs out with orphaned gorillas in his social group. Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund By Ann GibbonsMar. 23, 2021 , 4:00 AM A few years ago, four female mountain gorillas left home, abandoning not only their mate—a sick alpha silverback—but their infants, which were […]
The Biden administration recently re-imposed sanctions on Israeli businessman Dan Gertler over alleged massive corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s lucrative mining business. Journalist Franz Wild reports on his remarkable rise, and his alliance with former President Joseph Kabila which even saw him being appointed a Congolese diplomat. When […]
Female bonobo apes ‘adopt’ orphans from other social groups in a surprising display of altruism Researchers studied four groups of the great apes living in a reserve in the DRC Two females were seen carrying, grooming and nursing two unrelated infants The team used faecal mitochondrial DNA to confirm that they […]