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Dengue and malaria in particular have surged after flooding and the breakdown of sewage systems created breeding grounds for mosquitoes Surging cases of cholera, dengue and malaria are overwhelming hospitals in war-torn Sudan, aid workers say. Health infrastructure...
Khartoum – The National Umma Party in Sudan condemned, on Sunday, the arrest of the party's Deputy Chairman in North Kordofan State, Sadiq Gandour, by security forces in the city of Bara. The party's secretariat pointed out...

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...

How did an Indian zoo get the world’s most endangered great ape?

Bangkok (AFP) – Tapanuli orangutans are the world's most endangered great ape. Fewer than 800 remain, all previously thought to be in their native Indonesia....

Ostrich and emu ancestor could fly, scientists discover

Paris (AFP) – How did the ostrich cross the ocean? It may sound like a joke, but scientists have long been puzzled by how the family...

Overcrowding kills infant gorillas in Rwanda habitat

Kigali (AFP) – Celebrities, politicians and conservationists took turns to announce names for 40 infant gorillas in a glamorous ceremony in Rwanda, where the endangered...

Ex-owner of world’s largest rhino farm arrested for trafficking

Johannesburg (AFP) – South African police said they arrested Tuesday the former owner of the world's largest rhino conservation farm on charges of smuggling the...

New York declares total war on prolific rat population

New York (AFP) – New York is waging a war on multiple fronts to combat the near ubiquitous rats that plague city streets and the...

Rwanda bees being wiped out by pesticides

Kigali (AFP) – The use of pesticides in East Africa, some sold by European firms despite being banned in the EU, is killing off bees...

‘Absolute madness’: Thailand’s pet lion problem

Chiang Mai (Thailand) (AFP) – Behind a car repair business on a nondescript Thai street are the cherished pets of a rising TikTok animal influencer:...

Alpha males are rare among our fellow primates: scientists

Paris (AFP) – New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more nuanced power dynamics in...

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