International researchers, including from DTU National Food Institute, warn that the ongoing mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has the potential to spread across borders more ...

Encounters between baboons and people are common in parts of South Africa. WhatsApp groups often share stories of baboons raiding a kitchen and stealing all the food. And stories appear in the media ...

Gris-gris are rooted in traditional African faiths that believe vital powers in animals and nature may be unlocked — to harm, ...

Elon Musk and many other X users have reacted to Nota Baloyi's comments calling white South Africans 'inferior' and 'dogs'.

The rupture in the shared deep history of the baboon–human relationship came with the shift from hunter-gatherer lifeways to ...

Travel to a remote island near Brazil has been banned to all but scientists and the military because of the danger posed by its deadly snakes which can’t be found anywhere else in the world.

In South Africa, the interest rates decisions are taken by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at ...

In the fall of 2024, Dale and Lucinda Cockrell of Lincoln traveled to South Africa for a five-week stay in Kruger National Park. Over the course of the trip, Dale Cockrell snapped more than 18,000 ...

BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Local 10 animal advocate Jacey Birch recently delved into allegations of a cat dying after receiving a blood transfusion of dog blood from a South Florida animal hospital ...

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Four more South African soldiers have been killed in fighting with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government said, taking the number of South ...

which shines a spotlight on Africa’s wildlife crisis. "We're allowing for our rhinos to get poached. One rhino gets poached a day in South Africa; that is ridiculous. We have to do something ...

Video showed inmates escaping a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo as Rwandan-backed M23 rebels entered the eastern city of Goma. Thousands of civilians and Congolese soldiers fled to ...