The Gardens of their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History

In the largest ever haul of ivory in China, a 3.6-tonne shipment from Kenya was seized in Shanghai. The consignment, intercepted at Waigaoqiao Port, included 64 packages of smuggled ivory containing

A threat to food security looms large over east and central Africa. The insect which causes the cassava mosaic disease is rapidly spreading around the western side of Lake Victoria in Tanzania and

Rivers that flow from Mount Kenya are drying up, triggering an acute shortage of water in regions straddling the waterbodies. The crisis has impacted the semi-arid Laikipia district the most. To add

a recent report has blamed the International Monetary Fund (imf) and World Bank for putting pressure on Malawi, a southern African nation, to sell 28,000 metric tonnes (mt) of maize to Kenya,

Malaria is back with a bang in East Africa. Its latest victim is Kenya, where the epidemic has killed at least 294 people since June 2002. According to estimates, more than 158,000 cases of the

Zambia and Kenya are set to lock horns over ivory trade at the next Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites) meeting scheduled for November 2002. While a proposal to lift the

Poachers Beaten Kenyan rangers should get a pat on their back. Recently they killed the leader of a poaching gang in a shoot-out. The poachers armed with ak 47 and g 3 rifles were on