Lions, the pride of Africa, are disappearing in West Africa - U.S. News & World Report

This Friday, July. 13, 2012, photo released by Philipp Henschel shows a male lion cub that is one of a few remaining in Nigeria’s Yankari National Park. New research published Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, shows sharp declines since 1990 in nearly all lion populations in West and Central Africa, and that both regions risk losing half their lions within the next two decades. (Philipp Henschel/Panthera via AP)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Lions, that symbol of Africa's wild beauty, power and freedom, no longer roam in Mali. Or in Ivory Coast or Ghana or war-shattered eastern Congo. Or most of the rest of West Africa.

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