Criminals are stripping South Africa's Succulent Karoo of its unique plant life to satisfy international demand. Illegal harvesting to supply the international horticultural market threatens some ...

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Africa's Sahel region accounts for more than half of terror-related ... Its new report says that in this semi-arid area to the south of the Sahara Desert 3,885 people out of a worldwide total of ...

Petroleum Minister Gwede Mantashe to lift moratorium on shale exploration once regulations published — and berates ...

ORANIA, South Africa ... Now, the residents of Orania - population, 3,000 - in the semi-arid Karoo region want U.S. President Donald Trump to help them become a state.

This is the story of an independent record label that has been sending the music of the Sahel around the world since 2010. From Agadez, Niamey, Illighadad in Niger and Podor in Senegal, to Nouakchott ...

A new species of velvet worm, Peripatopsis barnardi, was discovered in South Africa's Karoo region, marking the first record from this arid area and indicating a historically more forested landscape.