A Tale Of Two Hands: A Starving Boy and a Missionary in Uganda
This iconic photo was taken in Karamoja, Uganda in 1980
This iconic photo was taken in Karamoja, Uganda in 1980
Imagine you're napping under a tree, taking a break from the blazing sun. Suddenly, you feel a gentle nudge, and to your surprise, it's not your buddy waking you up—it's a cheetah!
This remarkable relationship between man and beast has been kept alive for 50 years thanks to one family's tradition.
54 million nets have saved 24,600 lives and prevented 13 million cases of malaria across 16 countries, according to estimates.
On the West African islands of Cape Verde, conservation work over the last decade is creating huge loggerhead sea turtle booms.
A new species of owl was documented as unique to an island-and was named after a local ranger who used to sell parrots to the pet trade.
Sea forests from the temperate zones contain kelps that can grow 11-times faster than wheat, corn, or rice.
Big cats freed from circuses will be freed from cages in Colombia and Peru to head for 12,000 acres of open space in South Africa.
Miners in Angola have uncovered a giant pink diamond weighing 170-carats, which is the largest rose colored stone to be found in 300 years.
Forget strutting the runway with big hair and cheesy smiles. The Miss Landmine Angola competition leaves behind the superficiality and aims for promoting pride and beauty, despite imperfections.
The restoration of peace in 2002 has turned oil-rich Angola into one of the world's fastest growing economies and opened a new frontier for surfers, mostly from Luanda, who flock to the warm blue waters of Cabo Ledo to ride waves. Officials expect the country's warm climate, vast sandy beaches along with the recently restored peace to begin attracting visitors from abroad.
Thousands of kilometres of roads have been rebuilt after a civil war that ended in 2002, enabling farmers from banana plantations in the south to coffee producers in the north to bring their products to market on time and at affordable prices.
Cheetahs have returned to their former habitat, a national park in Angola, after a three-decade civil war devastated the area, according to a conservation group based in Namibia.
A brightly painted old shipping container with solar panels on its roof and high-specification filtration devices will soon be providing nearly 20,000 liters a day of clean, drinkable water to the area's 500 residents who currently rely on the dirty nearby river. If the pilot is successful, manufacturing will begin locally to roll out across the region.
The number of girls enrolling in primary school has soared across Africa in the last decade, according to a report released on Monday. With primary education now free in all but five African countries, there has been a boom in the number of children attending school, with Ethiopia and Angola showing the most dramatic improvements -- a 42 percent and 43 percent increase respectively from 2000 to 2011.
The Seath family plans to repopulate coral reefs in the Seychelles through "micro-fragmentation" farming and a new nonprofit, Coral Reef Conservation UK.
Over 23 years of work, the country, which still struggles to contain the HIV epidemic, has nevertheless eliminated it among children.
Fog nets in southern morocco by the company Aquilonis are providing 18 liters of drinking water per day, for 1600 people.
Made from water, lime, hemp, and a cement binder, the blocks from Afrimat Hemp are made of entirely South African hemp.
Now scientists have developed two new drug candidates for treating addiction and depression, modelled on the pharmacology of ibogaine.
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