Nowhere to Hide: Pangolins are the most poached in the world
Science magazine March 13, 2019 UGANDA—The small pangolin tucked its head toward its belly and curled its tail around its body. Clad in large scales, it resembled a pine […]
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Solar Mini-Grids Give Nigeria a Power Boost
New York Times December 3, 2018 GBAMU GBAMU, Nigeria — Music blasts from King Royal Guesthouse, a small restaurant in the village of Gbamu Gbamu, a three-hour drive from Lagos. […]
Saving the neck of Rothschild’s giraffe
The Economist October 27, 2018 A relocation programme spreads a rare subspecies to new habitats GO TO ARTICLE TO A FOREIGN tourist, a giraffe is an extraordinary and elegant beast. […]
Rescuing Sea Turtles From Fishermen’s Nets
New York Times October 15, 2018 WATAMU, Kenya — The young hawksbill turtle was accidentally caught in a net in the Indian Ocean off Kenya’s coast. GO TO ARTICLE The fisherman […]
The Hot New Musical Trend In Zanzibar Is From The ’80s — The 1880s
NPR Students at the Dhow Countries Music Academy, dedicated to preserving the music known as “taarab,” play on a balcony overlooking Zanzibar’s port. Amy Yee for NPR Amy Yee September […]
An SUV Built For African Roads — By African Workers
Harvard Business School Alumni Bulletin By Amy Yee September 1, 2018 An upstart company is building an SUV for the African market—and trying to turn the continent into an automaker […]
Rwanda Eyes Biogas and Other Cooking Fuels to Help Curb Deforestation
New York Times September 22, 2018 By Amy Yee KIGALI, Rwanda — The kitchen of Ecole Secondaire Kanombe Efotec, a boarding school here, is busy from dawn to dusk while the staff […]
In Sweden, Trash Heats Homes, Powers Buses and Fuels Taxi Fleets
New York Times By Amy Yee September 22, 2018 In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs five tons of trash. As a […]
Strength in Numbers: StrongMinds looks to break the cycle of depression for women in Uganda and beyond.
Stanford Social Innovation Review August 2018 Harriet Nakalyango sells water and farms a small plot of land to make a living on the outskirts of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. After she married at age 16 […]
How Rwanda Tidied Up Its Streets (And The Rest Of The Country, Too)
NPR July 18, 2018 At 8 a.m. on a sunny morning in April, people are sweeping the hilly streets of Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, with straw brooms and picking […]
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