Browsing: Africa

The court said the law violates some human rights standards, but let it stand nonetheless.

As Easter gets closer, increased cocoa prices are causing consumers to spend more on their chocolate eggs and bunnies. However, that's only the beginning of the issue.

Research indicates Africa’s borders were not entirely random, but instead shaped by negotiations involving precolonial territories and geographical landmarks.

The leading theory that explains why zebras are striped (remember the age old riddle? black stripes on white or white stripes on black?) is because it offers them protection against predators, by providing camouflage, as colour blind animals confuse the strips with tall grass in the savanna. A team of researchers from Hungary, however, offer a different, […]

Casey Holliday, a University of Missouri researcher, was looking through some of the hundreds of unlabeled items kept in a storage facility when he come about a remarkable find –  a skull fragment from an ancient croccodile, dating back from the late Cretaceous, around 95 million years ago. What’s really interesting about the find is […]

Nairobi, Kenya is home to one of the world’s biggest slums, more than one million people living in subhuman conditions in the African state capital. I’ve seen and read a lot of reports from there, and other African states alike, and the situation is indeed dire. Imagine having nothing to eat – now imagine having […]