In remote Senegal, chimp researchers escape gold mines’ perilsThu, 15 Jan 2026 06:57:51 GMT
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 …









