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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 […]

In the grassy dwarf shrublands of South Africa’s Karoo, Michelle Marie Schroeder is looking for a very specific kind of poo. Black-footed cats spend most of the day hidden in burrows and emerge mainly under the cover of darkness, making them notoriously difficult to study. That’s why the conservation biologist relies unconventional assistants: Lyka and […]

Illegal gold mining in Ghana's Greater Cape Three Points Forest Reserve threatens vulnerable and endangered species in the protected forest, say conservationists.

GOLIATI, Malawi — All that’s left to eat in Tapiwa Ligomeka’s one-room home is stored in a small plastic basin in one corner. Two days earlier, her husband came home with 2 kilos of maize meal, about 5 pounds — all he could afford to buy after a day hustling for casual work carrying traders’ […]

A 10-year agreement provides York Timber Holdings with access to renewable electricity “at scale,” an official with the timber company said.

In July, Mongabay published a feature investigation and video report about deforestation in southeastern Liberia dude to cacao cultivation.