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In a statement this week, China’s Agricultural Ministry asked offshore fishing enterprises to respect the maritime boundaries of other countries. Doing so will protect China’s image as a responsible great power and prevent any...
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...
RUIRU, Kenya — Before last year, Richard Ochieng’, 26, could not recall experiencing racism firsthand. Not while growing up as an orphan in his village near Lake Victoria where everybody was, like him, black....
Africa might not be changing its role in the world anytime soon if its young people are not at the centre of the continent’s development agenda. While China plays a vital role in developing...
BEIJING (REUTERS) - China has postponed the lifting of a ban on the trade of rhino horn and tiger parts for medicine and other uses, the government said on Monday (Nov 12), after a...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has rejected a Chinese loan totaling to 3.1 Billion Dollar from Africa’s biggest loan lender and investor. In his defense the Kenyan president said that it will be difficult to run the...
Beijing’s decision prompts outcry from global conservation groups amid fears over endangered species future in the wild. China has defended its decision to reverse aspects of a decades-old ban on the trade of tiger bones...
China is rapidly and illegally gobbling up the world’s second largest rainforest, to fuel America’s appetite for cheap furniture. The second largest rainforest in the world, in Central Africa’s Congo Basin, is disappearing at...
Dawn was just beginning to break when Joseph Kamonjo Kariuki woke to find his donkeys missing. The villager searched the bush frantically for the animals he depends on to deliver water for a living....
Chinese involvement in industrial trawling is depleting Ghana’s fish stocks and harming livelihoods, says a new report by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). Many West African countries rely heavily on their seas for food and...
Alanson Aquante shrugged as he carefully pinched and turned fish on a large cement grill. “Before we had plenty of fish here and very cheap,” he said, barely visible through the smog that filled...
Africa’s tropical forests, which include the Congo Basin, are under constant threat. Deutsche Welle speaks to Proforest’s Abraham Baffoe on what stands to be lost and what needs to be done to tackle deforestation....
Gunjur youths to Golden Lead: Remove the waste pipe into the sea within 7 days or we will remove it ourselves By Sainey Darboe As the fallout over the environmental pollution between Golden Lead Fishmeal factory...