NAIROBI

• A Kenyan barber who wields a sharpened shovel thrives on Africa's social media craze - Safari Martins leads his client Ian Njenga into a sparse shack on the rural roadside in Kiambu, at the edge of metropolitan Nairobi. On the shack’s wooden walls hang a shovel, iron, agricultural shears and a wrench, but Njenga is not there
• Kenyans protest after roaming elephants kill 4 people in a week - Some Kenyans on Wednesday protested after roaming elephants killed four people over the past week in what experts describe as human–wildlife conflict driven by scarcity of vegetation. One elephant believed to have killed two people was sho
• British zoologist and Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton dies at 83 - British-born zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton has died at age 83, his Save the Elephants group said in a statement. Douglas-Hamilton was known for decades of conservation work, which included pioneering trackers and collaring to protect ele