Kédougou, Senegal, Jan 15, 2026 (AFP) - In remote Senegal, chimp researchers escape gold mines' perils

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Michel Tama Sadiakhou's future dramatically changed course some 15 years ago thanks to a clan of spear-wielding apes: instead of the dangerous work in informal gold mines that is the fate of many in Senegal's far southeast, he now researches rare chimpanzees. He is among five people from local villages, all but one without a high school diploma, working on a project focused on the area's highly unusual savannah-dwelling chimpanzees. Not only has......

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