In this week’s newsletter: nature’s last stand against the DRC capital’s rampant development, plus looking back on last year’s stories of hope ...

Across Africa, baobabs have rich symbolic meaning, but the breakneck expansion of the DRC’s capital has reduced their number in the city centre to one ...

Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has collected fruit from the gigantic baobab trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family’s staple corn and millet diet. The 50-year-old ...

An ancient African tree is providing a new 'superfood' yet local harvesters are barely surviving Loveness Bhitoni picks up fallen baobab fruit under a baobab tree in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, Thursday, Aug. 22 ...

An ancient African tree is providing a new ‘superfood’ yet local harvesters are barely surviving The sun sets behind a baobab tree, known as the tree of life, in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, Thursday, Aug. 22, ...