Retrospectively, I had a rocky career but maybe that was necessary in order to achieve international success. Then in the end, It helped me win 19 medals at big events world wide. My name’s Edith Hunkeler and I’m a former wheelchair sportswoman. Africa Rolls With World Vision Switzerland Embassador Edith Hunkeler Mummy needs to go […]
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[phone rings] SIMON (VOICEOVER): As we land in Cape Town, the calls already start to come in. We literally hit the ground running. We just got a call from a lady saying that she thinks she might have a cobra that’s gone into her guinea pig cage. She’s quite scared. So, I said just watch […]
We’re in Borgou, in northern Benin between Nigeria and Togo, home of the Bariba and Betamaribe groups of the Somba people, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. Formerly hunters, today they also grow crops and keep livestock but hunting is still more for them than just a way to acquire food. They hunt in small groups […]
Sex for grades. University professors sexually harassing and blackmailing their students. This thing has been going on for years and every single year, every single department, every single student, there’s always a story. We all hear about it. But it’s almost never proven. The very first advice I got was don’t ever go to your […]
THOMAS MORTON: We’re in Uganda. Uganda’s had a pretty good spell the last 25 years– no major civil wars, a little bit of an Ebola outbreak every so often, including right now. And they’re the alcoholism capital of Africa. One favorite type of booze the locals make is called waragi. We’re going to go make […]
Logan: Very little is known about a sensitive mission being carried out by a hundred u.S. Special operations troops deep in the jungles of central africa. They’ve joined several thousand african soldiers in one of the biggest manhunts that’s ever taken place. Their goal is to help kill or capture the world’s most wanted warlord, […]
North pride is on the move Raptors hover over all withered carcass, but there is scent of fresher meat in the wind Ticking has been slim from the bamba’s pride since her fight for the startled warthog The lioness is limping from the encounter and even the prides big male juggle Wanders when his next […]
For as long as white people have been colonizing Africa, trophy hunting has existed as a way for them to bring home souvenirs. And you know, in a way, I feel like us Africans are partly to blame. We should have had a gift shop. We should have had a gift shop. But while these […]
Welcome back! Two years ago, a Minnesota dentist named Walter Palmer was publicly shamed for killing a beloved lion called Cecil during a hunting expedition in Zimbabwe. Well, like father like son. And I don’t mean the dentist. >>Two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a Minnesota trophy hunter, the animal’s son apparently […]
This is the village of Kuke Mbomo, in Cameroon, being burnt to the ground. For months now, images like these have been pouring out of Cameroon on social media. Some show burning villages. Others record acts of torture and killing. Many are too graphic to show. Taken together, these films show a country sliding into […]