Category: Africa


Photo Courtesy of Mark Knobil.

Balancing competing interests for food and forest became a primary concern for the governments of Chad and Nigeria in the past month, as the two nations- which share a border along the arid Saharan desert that surrounds Lake Chad- both made warnings on desertification sometimes startling in their frankness.

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Category: Africa


Photo Courtesy of Tebogo Letsie/IRIN.

South Africa experienced a busy close to 2008. As the country was swept up in preparations for their hosting duties of the 2010 World Cup, the government of long-time ANC stalwart Thabo Mbeki collapsed, ushering to power the controversial Jacob Zuma, whose 2006 acquittal on rape charges has done little to dampen his political rise.

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