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‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys
What's happening
SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian World is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 27 Sept 2026, 11:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘It’s hard to sell a house when it’s covered in baboon faeces’: Cape Town divided over plan to remove its monkeys”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Two troops of chacma baboons are breaking into homes and shops but animal rights activists insist coexistence is the answer Cape Town’s city council has said it will “imminently” round up two baboon troops coming into repeated conflict with residents. The animals will be sterilised and permanently moved to a…
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