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Babysitting giant African snails before turning them into dinner

In one of his strangest adventures yet, Mike Corey travels through Ivory Coast to care for and eventually eat giant African snails. Along the way, he explores remote beaches, visits a snail farm, and ...

Florida's massive Everglades is home to some of the nation's most gnarly, capable critters

Florida's Everglades is the largest stretch of undeveloped land in the easter U.S., and the area is literally crawling with ...
Texas Public Radio

To save a giant snail, New Zealand targets the non-native critters that eat it

The giant snails of New Zealand are big, slimy, and at risk. Park rangers in New Zealand have spent over a decade trying to ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Kenyans mourn African literature giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — In a bookstore in Kenya's capital, the proprietor arranged a shelf exclusively carrying books by Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who died Wednesday in the United States. Nuria ...
Cfr.org

Civil War in Sudan

For the first half of the twentieth century, Sudan was a joint protectorate of Egypt and the United Kingdom, known as the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium. Egypt and the United Kingdom signed a treaty ...