With very few exceptions, Africa’s Sahel—a strip of Africa that lies just south of the Sahara Desert—is a barren, devastated place populated largely by semi-nomadic Fulani herdsmen who keep watch over ...

Tension between farmers and herders has long been a fact of life in West Africa, but climate change is ramping it up.

FETE FORROU, SenegalFETE FORROU, Senegal — The Fulani people — also known as the Peuhl — are believed to be the largest seminomadic ethnic group in the world, with communities stretching from Senegal ...

A trail camera at Niokolo-Koba National Park photographed a rare giant pangolin, a species last seen in 1999 and feared locally extinct, study said. Photo from Panthera/Direction des Parcs Nationaux ...

Locals cheered when the animal was gunned in the village of Kédougou, in southern Senegal THIS is horrifying moment an endangered hippo was shot by a French hunter in front of cheering locals after ...

Partners in the first phase of Senegal's five-year National Integrated Livestock Development Program (French acronym PNDIES-P1) met on 28 May. Workshop participants included Senegal's Ministry of ...

Senegal has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday. The outbreak, which occurred in the Thies ...

DAKAR (Reuters) - A Senegal court remanded in custody two Senegalese and a Malian on Thursday for involvement in the trade of hundreds of animal skins, including a species of crocodile threatened with ...

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