A threatened herd. An audacious plan. Inside Africa’s wildest conservation gambit. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/south-africa-white-rhino-rescue The conservation organization African Parks bought the distressed rhino herd at a steep discount in 2023. The group plans to transport them to new homes across Africa and save the species from poachers for good. ByAlex Perry Photographs byBrent Stirton Published September 23, 2026 A …
Sept 10th 2026: https://www.economist.com/interactive/1843/2026/09/10/the-assassination-of-the-worlds-only-openly-gay-imam. By Alex Perry Muhsin Hendricks, the world’s first openly gay imam, stepped out of a small bungalow in Bethelsdorp, a suburb of Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) on South Africa’s southern coast, just after 10am on Saturday February 15th 2025. He was 500 miles from home on a lightning trip hardly anyone …
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BY ALEX PERRY, SEPT 26, 2024 POLITICO The shipping containers were a familiar sight to the villagers of northern Mozambique’s remote and troubled Afungi peninsula: a dozen steel boxes lined up end-to-end with a guarded gate in the middle. They formed a makeshift barricade at the entrance to an enormous natural gas plant that the …
A Hidden Catastrophe, Uncovered Just after 2pm on March 24, 2021, 500 rebels from the ISIS-affiliated al-Shabab group in northern Mozambique attacked the coastal town of Palma, adjacent to a 16,000-acre liquid natural gas (LNG) plant being built by TotalEnergies, and other partners, on the Afungi peninsula, south of town. To assess the impact on …
“I’m Still Alive but Sh*t Is Getting Wild”: Inside the Siege of the Amarula Jun 1, 2022 When vast gas reserves were discovered off the idyllic coast of northern Mozambique, a crew of roughnecks flew in from around the world to make their fortunes. But in March 2021, Islamist rebels attacked, and the foreigners and …
Oct 18, 2021 Each year an estimated 300,000 smugglers, known as ‘kolbars,’ haul millions of pounds of contraband from Iraq to Iran over the 14,000-foot peaks of the Zagros Mountains. More than 50 of them will die—shot dead, killed in accidents, or freezing to death—and countless more will be arrested and imprisoned. Alex Perry travels …
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