Botanist Andrea Bianchi and local plant experts Aloyce Mwakisoma and his brother Ruben were exploring two tiny village forest ...
This path, near the Dja river in the south region of Cameroon, lay next to the small village of Bemba. The village folk, Baka ...
Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other ...
This is my first and only night camping in the depths of the Kruger. But for my fellow campmates, this is just part of the ...
That’s why Nigeria is placing its bets on solar mini-grids—small installations that produce up to 10 megawatts of electricity ...
Global trade in gum arabic centres on the African nation – and proceeds bankroll conflict between the army and paramilitary ...
When many people think of Africa, their minds turn to rolling golden savannas dotted with acacia trees—a vast, seemingly endless grassland spanned by wild herds of herbivores and the predators that ...
As the growing demand for charcoal and firewood hastens the decline of shea trees in Ghana, communities living on the fringes ...
In the dry, sandy soils of southern Africa, a rugged survivor stands tall: Vachellia erioloba, more commonly known as the ...
While the acacia trees that yield gum arabic grow across the Africa's arid Sahel region - known as the 'gum belt' - Sudan has become by far the world's biggest exporter due to its extensive groves.