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Inside a Remarkable Local Effort to Stop Elephant Poaching in Zambia

Poachers have killed more than 90 percent of Zambia's elephants since the 1950s. In response, villagers banded together to protect those in North Luangwa National Park last year.

John C. Cannon

Picture taken at the Musee de l'Homme in Paris shows a reconstruction of a head of a Homo Rhodesiensis, a possible hominin species described from the fossil Rhodesian Man.

Social Justice

Inside Zambia’s Effort to Bring One of Its Most Iconic Archeological Discoveries Back Home

In a rare move, Britain is considering returning the remains of the Rhodesian Man, the earliest human fossil found in Africa, to its home country.

Michael Balter

Economics

Why Is Zambia So Poor?

This landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa isn't a failed state in the traditional sense: There's no dictator, no child soldiers. But most of its 14 million people live on less than $1 per day. How did things get this way, and can they ever get better?

Michael Hobbes