Politics | Society
Preliminary results show Obiang in landslide victory
afrol News - Equatorial Guinea's president, Teodor Obiang Nguema, has won over 90 percent of the votes from the quarter of the ballots counted in the west African state, according to preliminary results published on the government website. The official election results are expected on 7 December. Read more
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Environment - Nature
Forests and deforestation in Africa
- the wasting of an immense resource
afrol News - Except for the Congo Basin, Africa's frontier forests have largely been destroyed, primarily by loggers and by farmers clearing land for agriculture. In West Africa, nearly 90 percent of the original moist forest is gone, and what remains is heavily fragmented and degraded. Today, West African unspoiled forests are restricted to one patch in Côte d'Ivoire and another along the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Read more
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