Gabon Edition
Chute des Mangues leads today's complete edition for Gabon.
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The mangoes do not wait to be picked. They fall. They fall on roofs, on cars, on heads, on the ground in front of children who have been waiting all year. The season is short, the fruit is abundant, and every yard with a mango tree becomes a self-serve market. Nobody sells mangoes in season. The mangoes sell themselves by falling at your feet.
The short dry season ends and the big rains come back. The streets of Libreville flood in minutes, the taxis slow to a crawl, and every Gabonese person makes the same joke about building a boat. The gutters run like rivers. The mango trees drink deep. The rain does not apologize for arriving.
You marvel at the Ethiopian wolf, Hamadryas baboon, and Walia ibex that inhabit Ethiopia's unique highlands and rift valleys. You observe that Ethiopians typically keep goats, sheep, and donkeys for both companionship and labor purposes. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.