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Tanzania has charged a Chinese businesswoman for leading the country’s most notorious ivory poaching ring. Yang Fenglan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants worth millions of...
Scientists have long predicted that warmer temperatures caused by climate change will have the biggest impact on the world’s poorest, most vulnerable people. New research now indicates that’s already happened over the last several decades. A study published...
Our ancestors were well aware of the dangers of neocolonialism. During the 1974 Pan-African Congress, Black leaders from around the world affirmed the following: To put an end to foreign domination in Africa by...
China’s growing engagement with African countries got a publicity boost on 3-4 September with the latest Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The triennial event brought leaders and officials from 53 African countries and the...
Authorities in Sierra Leone on Monday started implementing a one-month ban on fishing in the country’s territorial waters, in addition to halting of exports by major fishing companies, in a bid to shore up...
At a time when local fishermen in Somalia are struggling to compete with foreign vessels that are depleting fishing stocks, the government has granted 31 fishing licenses to China. Since assuming power last year,...
Authorities keep arresting people said to be bosses of wildlife trafficking, but that isn’t making a dent in the problem. In 2003, enterprising criminals in Southeast Asia realized that they could exploit a loophole...
As the frozen fish defrosts under the hot Kenyan sun, fishmonger Mechak Juma prefers not to tell his customers that it has come all the way from China. We are at the largest fish...
Cyclone Idai has had a “massive and horrifying” impact on Mozambique’s port city of Beira, the Red Cross says. It made landfall on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph), but...
Azura Selous, a luxury game lodge situated along the banks of the Great Ruaha River in the remote Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania, has announced its sudden closure due to the unexpected arrival...
Signing a contract with China is like, ascribing to the boiling frog effect; a fable describing a frog being boiled alive slowly. If you drop a frog suddenly into boiling water, it will jump...
The government of Uganda is now at risk of losing its main state assets to China over unpaid huge increasing Chinese loans to Uganda . But according to Ugandan government, the growing debt is sustainable, and...
Tanzania will be going ahead with a $3 billion logging project in the middle of the Selous Game Reserve – a Unesco World Heritage Site, and one of the most iconic wildlife areas in...
Botswana is moving towards culling elephants by lifting its wildlife hunting ban after a group of the country’s ministers endorsed the idea, but the proposal has drawn heavy criticism. Botswana’ is planning to cull...
Amidst the climate alarmism that is sometimes misplaced, there are stories that paint a different picture. Like the study published in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate showing that climate models exaggerate global warming from...
Kenya is home to a number of iconic animals ranging from elephants and rhinoceros to giraffes, leopards and cheetahs. Elephants and rhinoceros are among the most threatened, as their tusks and horns make them...
Chinese fishing vessels are trawling the world’s oceans to feed their country’s appetite for seafood. That has brought those vessels into conflict with foreign coast guards and navies. In South America, it’s further straining...
IN 2010, PHOTOGRAPHER Nick Brandt, conservationist Richard Bonham, and entrepreneur Tom Hill founded the Big Life Foundation with the ambitious goal of ridding East Africa of animal poaching. Today, the nonprofit employs hundreds of local Maasai rangers...
Former president Robert Mugabe has condemned President Emmerson Mnangagwa for leasing anything visible in Zimbabwe to China. Mugabe has urged Zimbabwe leaders to be considerate when handling national resources as failure to do that...
The flowery legalese of any Fishing Partnership Agreement always appears to secure the sustainability of the domestic fisheries involved but really this economic document is Brussels’ strategy for plundering the abundant undersea resources of...
The Ugandan government has trained 35 teachers to be posted to 35 secondary schools in the five regions of the country to teach the Chinese language. The language has been added to the secondary...
Wetland Pollution at Bolong Fenyo Community Wildlife Reserve, in Gunjur: What does out of Court settlement between National Environment Agency and Chinese Golden Lead Fish Meal Processing Company means to the health of the...
This is part of “Ocean Shock,” a Reuters series exploring climate change’s impact on sea creatures and the people who depend on them. Greyhound Bay was once a place where old ships came to...
Lesotho is aiming to make money from the booming medicinal marijuana industry, but the BBC’s Vumani Mkhize says the southern African nation already has an unheralded illicit trade in the drug for recreational use....
African leaders met at a summit to discuss land restoration across the continent on Nov. 13, ahead of the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. Representatives from several African countries shared their countries’ pledges...