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Climate impact in Zimbabwe: Elephants, other wildlife begin early mass migration to escape drought conditions

Poor rains in preceding rainy season, water sources ran dry in August

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Eye in the sky

Satellite data can help understand how animals migrate

Bushmen's letter to president

Oil drilling threatens the Okavango River Basin, putting water in Namibia and Botswana at risk

Okavango River sustains over half a million people in Namibia and Botswana

Flourishing unaided

The AIDS epidemic shows no sign of abating with five million new cases reported in 2001

The real magic beans

Drumstick seeds can clarify water up to 99.5 per cent

Mauritius is the latest nation to decriminalise same-sex relations in a divided continent

Mauritius Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a law that criminalises consensual same-sex acts between adult men

Bead's eye view

Glass beads reveal ancient Indian Ocean trade networks

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Government makes Bushmen's return to forests difficult

Botswana's Bushmen to return to Kalahari Game Reserve

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Kenya's Ogiek tribe fights government to return home

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