Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...

Calls for regulationA ruminant expert, Mr Tunmise Olagbaju, has lamented scarcity of West African dwarf goat for breeding, stating that barbeque (Asun) merchants are always buying the goats in bulk ...

Spanning three countries, the vast W-Arly-Pendjari Complex is being used to facilitate organised crime, terrorism and local ...

Photograph by Ami Vitale The giraffes we have chased for a week are the descendants of some 50 animals that made their way to the West African country of Niger in the late 1980s, when drought and ...

Two Goliath beetle species are in grave danger because cocoa farming has wiped out their forests and they’re being sold on ...

Brass-workers in the kingdom of Ife made brass figures of gods, humans and animals. In the Asante kingdom ... From the 1950s many African countries won their independence. Today, the ancient ...