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'I went from working in a Welsh chippy to setting world records and now the world's watching what I do next'
Ash Dykes has walked the length of Madagascar, hiked the 4,000-mile Yangtze River in China and trekked solo across Mongolia ...
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The Evolution of Diet
At 39, he’s an energetic guy who doesn’t seem easily defeated—when he isn’t hunting or fishing or weaving ... the Aka and Baka Pygmies of the Congo River Basin on yams, the Tsimane and ...
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The deepest river in the world running through some of Africa's most beautiful countries
Africa’s second-longest river is by some distance its deepest, with a depth of up to 220 metres. The Congo River runs through ... More than 230 species of fish are known to exist in this one ...
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Eastern Congo rebel alliance declares ceasefire starting on Feb. 4
the group known as the Congo River Alliance said in a statement. The alliance added that it had no intention of capturing Bukavu, South Kivu's provincial capital, after it seized Congo's largest ...
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Ceasefire in east Congo appears to crumble as rebels take another town
Corneille Nangaa, leader of the Congo River Alliance rebel coalition that includes M23, confirmed the group moved into Nyabibwe. "They attacked us and we defended ourselves," he told Reuters.
The Boston Globe7d
Leaders from eastern and southern Africa call for a ceasefire and negotiations in Congo
The Congo River Alliance, a coalition of rebel groups including M23, said in an open letter to the summit that they are fighting a Congolese regime that “flouted republican norms” and is ...
UPI11d
Rebels declare 'humanitarian' cease-fire in war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo
The Congo River Alliance (AFC), which includes the so-called M23 group, said in a statement Monday that it had called for the truce, beginning Tuesday, "in response to the humanitarian crisis ...
France 2411d
M23 rebels declare unilateral ceasefire in DR Congo’s war-torn east
A political-military coalition of groups called the Alliance Fleuve Congo (River Congo Alliance), of which M23 is a member, said in a statement late Monday that it would implement "a ceasefire ...
Al Jazeera English8d
DR Congo summit directs army chiefs to enforce ceasefire
A summit of African leaders to address the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has directed army chiefs to meet within five days and “provide technical direction on an immediate and ...
CNN7d
Eastern and Southern African leaders hold unprecedented summit to seek way out of Congo conflict
Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...
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What’s behind the strange rash of ’dinosaur’ sightings in the Congo?
Deep in the heart of Odzala-Kokoua National Park, Selah Abong’o froze, convinced she was about to encounter something out of legend: a mokele-mbembe, Congo’s mythical dinosaur. In 2003 ...