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Personal chef to Madiba, Xoliswa Ndoyiya has just launched her cookery book Ukutya Kwasekhaya: Tastes from Nelson Mandela’s Kitchen.
Source: Sowetan
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A team of paleontologists have reportedly discovered a strange crocodile-like creature that is thought to have lived in the Late Cretaceous period, about 95 million years ago.
Source: The State Column
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Troops of bag-snatching, truck-looting baboons are causing chaos at a border post...
Source: News 24
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Mozambican authorities are forcefully moving people away from flood risk areas ...
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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Massospondylus nesting site – with fossilised eggs and tiny footprints – is 100m years older than any previously discovered
Source: The Guardian
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For the third time in the past 10 years, drought has returned to stalk the Sahel ...
Source: Daily Maverick
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Five people died and thousands were affected in the first tropical storm to hit southern Mozambique since 1984, an official said on Thursday.
Source: News24
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Several years ago, Lakes Kamnarok and Ol Bollosat in Kenya were vibrant water bodies...
Source: IPS
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Pressure on the government to stem the slaughter of rhinos is mounting in the run-up to public hearings on poaching that will be hosted in Parliament later this month.
Source: Mail & Guardian
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A new species of brightly coloured snake has been found in a remote area of Tanzania in East Africa.
Source: BBC
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The Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community plans to take their chief to court over a controversial 50-year land lease to a UK mining company.
Source: All Africa
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The number of elephants in two wildlife sanctuaries in Tanzania has fallen by nearly 42% in just three years, a census showed on Tuesday, as poachers increasingly killed the animals for their tusks.
Source: News 24
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The Republic of Congo has banned 69 Chinese fishing boats from its waters for illicit activities, Fisheries Minister Dieudonne Kiessiekiaoua said Friday.
Source: News24
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"Gentle" encounter should still remain extremely rare, experts warn.
Source: National Geographic
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More elephant tusks were seized in 2011 than in any year since 1989, when the ivory trade was banned, international wildlife trade group Traffic says.
Source: BBC
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The worst Nigeria offshore oil spill in more than a decade has been contained before reaching the West African nation’s coast, officials with Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Monday, less than a week after one of its lines bled crude into the Atlantic Ocean.
Source: Washington Post
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Royal Dutch Shell says an oil spill in the waters off Nigeria has been stopped and oil “largely dispersed” less than a week after the leak began, and before the oil reached the West African nation's coastline.
Source: Voice of America
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The head of Friends of the Earth, Nigeria, has warned that a recent oil spill off the country's coast could have a severe environmental impact.
Source: BBC News
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The head of Nigeria's oil spill management agency says an offshore oil spill from a Royal Dutch Shell PLC field is likely the worst in a decade.
Source: Times Live
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Sierra Leone’s Gola Rainforest remains a centre of contention as the local community here plan to take their chief to court next week over a controversial 50-year land lease to a mining company.
Source: IPS
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