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The Sudanese Doctors Network reported incidents of rape against displaced women from El-Fasher, accusing members of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing them. A local official also accused those forces of bombing a kindergarten and...
London (AFP) – Crystal Palace moved into fourth place in the Premier League as their remarkable rise hit a new high with a 2-1 win against Fulham, while Brighton stopped West Ham climbing out of the relegation...

US medical agency will scale back testing on monkeys

Washington (AFP) – The United States will scale back certain drug-safety testing requirements on monkeys, federal regulators said Tuesday, as President Donald Trump's administration pushes...

Survey raises estimate of African forest elephant numbers

Paris (AFP) – DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate for...

Southern white rhino calf has been born at a zoo in eastern Spain

Valencia (Spain) (AFP) – A southern white rhino calf has been born at a zoo in eastern Spain, in a success for a European programme...

Singapore seizes record rhino horn haul

Singapore (AFP) – Singapore has seized over $800,000 worth of illegal rhino horn and animal parts hidden in air cargo bound for Laos, authorities said...

‘It’s un-British’: lawmakers raise concerns about aquarium penguins

London (AFP) – Some 75 British MPs on Tuesday raised concerns about the welfare of 15 penguins being kept in a windowless space at the...

The Bright Side: Kenyan conservation areas adapt to help Maasai and wildlife coexist

Kenya’s Nashulai conservancy is pioneering a new approach to conservation, allowing Maasai communities to remain on their ancestral land alongside the wildlife that draws...

Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population

New Delhi (AFP) – India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA system has found,...

First wolf-dog hybrid confirmed in Greece

Athens (AFP) – A prominent Greek wildlife group on Friday said it had confirmed the first case of a wolf-dog hybrid in the north of...

Jane Goodall: crusader for chimpanzees and the planet

Paris (AFP) – British primatologist Jane Goodall imitated chimpanzees, sat with them in trees and shared their bananas during her trail-blazing research in Tanzania into...

Sea life thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs, sub discovers

Paris (AFP) – Marine life is thriving on unexploded Nazi bombs sitting at the bottom of a German bay, a submersible has discovered, even capturing...

Nearly 100 buffaloes die in Namibia stampede

Windhoek (AFP) – At least 90 buffaloes died while fleeing lions Tuesday after trampling on each other and falling off a cliff in Namibia's far...

Canada wildlife decline ‘most severe’ in decades: WWF

Montreal (AFP) – Biodiversity in Canada has plunged 10 percent over the last half century, with hundreds of species facing extinction, the World Wildlife Fund...

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