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/ 6 December 2006
World-renowned for its abundant exotic wildlife, rolling savannah and luxury safari camps, Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve is under threat from its fame. The site of the annual "great migration", the Maasai Mara and neighbouring Tanzania’s Serengeti plains, were recently crowned by United States media the seventh "new wonder of the world", but there are fears the honour may be a mixed blessing.
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/ 4 September 2006
The global debate between scientists and conservative Christians over evolution has hit Kenya, where an exhibit of one of the world’s finest collections of early hominid fossils is under threat. As the famed National Museum of Kenya prepares to reopen next year after massive, European Union-funded renovations, evangelicals are demanding the display be removed or at least shunted to a less prominent location.
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/ 25 September 2003
Male attitudes towards women and sex have long been acknowledged as one of the biggest sources of Africa’s AIDS pandemic, but changing them is a task that would have made Hercules himself throw up his hands in despair. That is the opinion of many experts at the ICASA AIDS conference.