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Tag Archives: rwanda

#91, March 8, 2017: Mystery on the Savanna: The Last Giraffe

March 8, 2017 Alex ShoumatoffDispatchesLeave a comment0

Smithsonian Magazine has published my piece on the giraffes, with beautiful photos by Melissa Groo.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/save-giraffes-put-our-necks-out-180962128/

 

guerillas have taken control of the virungnas where the mountain gorillas are

August 10, 2012 Alex Shoumatoffreader alertsLeave a comment0

this is not good. see article by Curtis Abraham in the New Scientist :http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22150-missing-congolese-gorillas-found-in-rebelheld-region.html

#18: Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide

April 7, 2004 Alex ShoumatoffDispatches, reader alertsLeave a comment0

Ten years after arguably the most savage genocide in human history, the comprehension of how such an unspeakably horrible thing could have happened is still anything but clear. The chain of causes is long and complex, and how far back into Rwanda’s history one chooses to trace it, and the relative importance one gives to …Read More

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