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The Paris Agreement is meant to ensure that global emissions decline to prevent a climate that is more than 1.5°C more than pre-industrial levels. (Klavs Bo Christensen/Getty Images)
HARARE

Chasing mermaids in Zimbabwe

When two congregants drowned in a dam near Mhondoro village in Zimbabwe, it was said the men had transgressed the covenant the church had with the shrine’s guardian spirits

  • Percy Zvomuya
17 min read
AC Unpacked participants have lunch at Veld and Sea in Cape Point(Supplied)
CAPE TOWN

Don’t let the botanicals go to your head

A well-tailored punt gets a pleb out of Brixton in Johannesburg and shows him the sights, smells and tastes of the various larney silos in Cape Town

  • Kwanele Sosibo
5 min read
Africa alone sees about half a million snakebites that need treatment every year, according to the World Health Organisation. (AFP)
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS

The battle to bring antivenoms to Africa

A shortage of snake antivenom in Africa is a "shameful failure"

  • Francois Ausseill
4 min read
CAMBODIA

‘Magic pythons’ married in Cambodia for luck

Hundreds of villagers in Cambodia have flocked to a wedding ceremony between a 4,8m and 90kg female python and her slightly smaller snake mate.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
ITALY

Italian traffickers hide cocaine under rare python

Italian police seized a rare albino python in Rome on Wednesday in a raid on a group of drug-traffickers.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read
SNAKES

Snakes declining at alarming rate, say scientists

Study suspects sharp decline in snake numbers in a variety of habitats in five countries is caused by habitat loss and prey.

  • Staff Reporter
5 min read