Instead of empowering African nations, the Facility risks tightening financial dependence and eroding local sovereignty over ...

Populations of the African forest and savanna elephant have declined sharply. The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now ...

By Hippolyte FOFACKThe international community is quick to highlight Africa’s development challenges and failures, often citing the continent’s limited progress on poverty reduction and climate action ...

Agriculture, forestry and other land uses together account for about 62% of Africa's greenhouse gas emissions. At the same ...

Africa's tropical forests appear more resilient as carbon sinks than Amazonian rainforests - mopping up planet-warming carbon ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon (AP) — Loss of ...

GLAND, Switzerland, March 26, 2021 (ENS) – Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat over the past five decades have taken a grim toll on African elephants. The African forest elephant, Loxodonta ...

A member of a pro-government Somali militia walks amongst piles of locally-produced charcoal, in the seaside town of Bur Garbo, Somalia. AP KAMPALA, Uganda — The machete-wielding men lodge themselves ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about 18,000 ...