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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
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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
15 min read
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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
2 min read
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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
3 min read