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Wildlife protection activist Adams Cassinga holds the skull of a buffalo, indicating the existence of this species in the past in the Bombo Lumene protected area near Kinshasa © Conserv Congo

ALLIED DEMOCRATIC FORCES

DRC stockpiles fuel illegal wildlife trade

Ivory and other wild contraband seized by authorities is being returned to the black market in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jonas Kiriko

Click. Click. Click. She smiles at me but doesn’t see me and still clicks her camera

Mam’Zodwa, a stallholder in Kwa Mai Mai muti market in downtown Jo’burg, takes umbrage at the lack of respect shown by a young photographer.

Pontsho Pilane

South African soldiers injured in DRC attack

Violence continues in the eastern DRC after an attack from an armed group left three South African soldiers injured.

Mmanaledi Mataboge
Verashni Pillay