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Niger's threatened giraffes find new home
Niger's threatened giraffes find new home
by  AFP

Conservationists in Niger said on Wednesday they had transferred threatened West African giraffes to a new home 600 kilometres (375 miles) away. Pain-staking efforts to save the West African giraffe seem to be bearing fruit.

'We could die tomorrow': Fears of Russian retaliation in Kherson
'We could die tomorrow': Fears of Russian retaliation in Kherson
by  AFP

The Ukrainian welder pondered the afterlife while whispering wedding vows to the nurse with whom he had three children in just-liberated Kherson. Kherson now stands in the crossfire of a Ukrainian push into the eastern parts of its eponymous region -- and possibly even Crimea itself.

Climate change set to 'increase hunger' in Africa: UN
Climate change set to 'increase hunger' in Africa: UN
by  AFP

As COP27 delegates in Egypt debate planet-heating emissions, the climate crisis is exacerbating devastating hunger across several African nations and will worsen further without urgent action, the UN said Wednesday.

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