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In late May, Mongabay accompanied a group of conservationists and scientists to Taï National Park — a large rainforest in Côte d'Ivoire famous for its habituated western chimpanzees.

CONAKRY — Over the next few months, Guinea’s environment ministry will review an environmental and social impact assessment for an iron ore mine in the country’s Nimba Mountains. The project, named Kon Kweni, is to be carved out of Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Comprising a unique combination of tropical […]

Hundreds of thousands of people depend on Malawi's Elephant Marsh for their livelihoods.

Zambia may seem food-secure now, with recent adequate rains and bumper harvests, but experts say it could be short-lived as global geopolitical tensions drive up fertilizer and fuel costs.

Tensions in the Gulf that have disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, causing fertilizer prices to rise.

Geopolitics in the Middle East that has affected shipping through the Strait of Hormuz risk disrupting fertilizer supplies and drive-up prices ahead of the next planting season.

Liberia's remote southeast, home to some of West Africa's last remaining rainforests, is facing a deforestation crisis driven by cacao farming.

Fishers from Ghana travel the length of the West African coastline to find the richest fishing grounds, but the availability of this vital source of protein is under threat from a number of sources.

A court in Accra has sentenced Bernard Antwi Boasiako, a regional chairman of Ghana's opposition New Patriotic Party, to 20 years in prison for unlicensed mining in the country's Samreboi concession.

In its latest report on food security and nutrition around the world, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says the number of people facing hunger globally has declined for the third consecutive year, but Africa still has the highest number of people with insufficient food. The FAO report estimated that 20% of Africans faced hunger […]