Nat Geo - Desert elephant and its characteristics - BBC
Desert elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts. It was believed at one time that they were a subspecies of the African bush elephant but this is no longer thought to be the case. Desert-dwelling elephants were once more widespread in Africa than they are now and are currently found only in Namibia and Mali. They tend to migrate from one waterhole to another following traditional routes which depend on the seasonal availability of food and water. They face pressure from poaching and from changes in land use by humans.

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an oral history of the west african fulani/pulaar people as told by the sage amadou hampate ba.

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Egbe Abantu Cieng Li Mbog.
The most widely dispersed African Communities/Nations on the Continent. Banta Fulbe. Pulaaku (Ma'at).

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Illegal mining threatens cocoa production.

Cantave Jean-Baptiste of Partenariat pour le Développement Local (PDL) in Haiti and Steve Brescia of Groundswell International will share strategies and lessons from rural Haiti.
Haiti is one of the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change.
What is working to strengthen farmer organizations to build resilience and wellbeing through agroecology? How can we spread these successes?

Speakers:
Cantave Jean-Baptiste, Executive Director, PDL
Steve Brescia, Executive Director, Groundswell International

Endorsed by: The Casey and Family Foundation; the Ansara Family Fund; Haiti Development Institute; the Agroecology Fund

Groundswell International and PDL were awarded a grant by the New England International Donors (NEID) Climate Change Giving circle in support of this work in 2018.

JAYAPURA (Café Pacific): The current armed conflict between West Papuan National Liberation Army (TPNPB) and Indonesian Military Forces in Nduga, West Papua, are demonstrated in this video released by TPNPB News.

This video was taken a few months ago in Nduga when Indonesia dropped military personnel in an airborne operation.

On a different occasion, the same helicopter dropped an internationally banned weapon, white phosphorous, in December 2018, and in some different places dropped live bombs, according to TPNPB News.

On 27 January 2018, a war ultimatum was announced by the National Operation Comander of TPNPB, the military wing of OPM armed resistance, Legakek Tellengen in Puncak Jaya.

Source: Voice West Papua, 27 June 2019, from TPN-PB News, 26 June 2019.
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Welcome to today's episode where we are joined by Joanna Leblanc, a Foreign Policy and Security Legal Professional. We look at the extortion of Haiti and the different ways it paved a way for African independence.

Jamaica was once the world’s leading exporter of bauxite, which is the ore from which aluminum is made, but decades of mining have taken a toll on the land and the people. With reserves depleted, the government is now pushing to move mining operations into the most ecologically sensitive part of the island known as Cockpit Country. The people of Cockpit Country fought off the British in the 1700s and now they're conjuring the warrior spirit of their ancestors to take that fight to the mining companies.

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While kids are fleeing chaos in Haiti, the Dominican Republic is building a wall to keep migrants out. Business is booming for human smugglers on Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic as Haitians flee the social and economic crisis at home. But the influx of thousands of Haitians, many of them children, is stoking xenophobia in DR, which has begun work on a border wall to keep migrants out.

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