BANGKOK: Vietnamese are continuing to pay for poached and murder rhinoceros horns in the country, believing that the medicinal aspects of the horns will help cure cancer and lengthen one’s age. Cancer patients are the most common buyers of the murdered animal’s horns, and despite illegal in Vietnam, it continues to be a major mover [...]
Spain’s King Juan Carlos faces overwhelming public scorn following an extravagant elephant hunting trip to Botswana earlier this month. Juan Carlos, an honorary president of World Wildlife Spain, had his private trip publicized when he was flown back to Madrid for medical attention after reportedly slipping and fracturing his hip. Hundreds of thousands voiced their [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – Tech company Google has teamed up with South Africa’s Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory (NMCM) to create an online archive of photos and documents pertaining to the anti-Apartheid icon, according to an announcement on Tuesday. The free archive is divided into the various eras in the life of Mandela, who after 27 [...]
Cape Town/Sydney (dpa) – A consortium of eight African nations, led by South Africa, is competing against a joint bid from Australia and New Zealand for the right to construct the world’s biggest radio telescope. Both bids insist the competition to build the 2-billion-dollar Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope is a purely scientific one, but [...]
CAIRO: South Africa security forces arrested on Monday 12 Egyptian citizens for entering the country illegally and infiltrating its borders with the help of smugglers. The Egyptians are reportedly from the Kafr el-Sheikh and al-Gharbiyah governorates, the foreign ministry said in a statement. Tarek Abu Senna, Deputy Assistant to the Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs, [...]
Milan, Italy (dpa) – A reservoir of more than 283 billion cubic meters of gas has been discovered off the coast of Mozambique, Italian fuel company Eni said Monday. The “new giant natural gas discovery” was made at the Mamba North East 1 exploration site, some 50 kilometers off Cape Delgado at an underwater depth [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – A very small group of Indonesians are probably the ancestors of all people in Madagascar, a massive island off Africa’s south-eastern coast, according to a new study in the Royal Society’s journal on biological sciences. Inhabitants of the world’s fourth largest island all speak dialects of an Austronesian language that traces its [...]
LAGOS: A South African premier league coach has been suspended by club management as an investigation is undertaken into whether he asked players for money if he played them. Platinum Stars said in a statement issued late Friday that they had asked their football coach Owen da Gama to stand down while they investigated the [...]
LAGOS: The South African government has apologized for deporting a number of Nigerians from the country in a move analysts and observers say will help ease the tensions between the two countries. “We wish to humbly apologize to them, and we have,” South Africa’s deputy foreign minister, Ibrahim Ibrahim, told reporters. “We are apologizing because [...]
PRETORIA: The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold the first-ever formal inter-governmental debate on violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people on 7 March in Geneva between 12:00 and 15:00 (Geneva time). It will be webcast live at www.un.org/webcast. The debate, sponsored by South Africa and Brazil, will feature panelists [...]
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe (dpa) – The merchants on Livingstone Bridge at the border with Zambia are smiling amicably in the noonday sun. In their hands are thick bundles of bank notes, to be sold as souvenirs to the tourists. Anyone who looks at such a colorful note, with a long row of zeroes on it, [...]
CAIRO: Zambia environment authorities on Saturday closed a copper mining plant operated by the Mopani Copper Mine company after health complaints from local residents continued to drag the mine. The move was seen by locals as an attempt to crackdown on poor conditions at mines across the country and comes after environmental activists called on [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – Advertisements are meant to attract attention. A new one in South Africa does just that and goes further, by brazenly putting the topic of homosexuality front and center. Producers say Africa’s first explicitly homosexual-themed billboard, measuring 4.5 meters by 18 meters, is meant to help bring gays come out into the open [...]
Lusaka (dpa) – Zambia has no plans to amend laws that outlaw homosexuality, a government spokesman said in Lusaka on Thursday, following speculation of a change in response to a recent call from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. “The laws of the land are very clear on this issue,” Fackson Shamenda told a press [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan slammed Moody’s on Thursday, after the ratings agency downgraded five of the country’s banks and a state-owned company by one notch this week. “They are not giving us enough credit for managing our economy in a counter-cyclical way,” said Gordhan, according to local media. “They have [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Wednesday expelled the president of its Youth League, Julius Malema, but the internal party disciplinary committee gave him room to appeal the sentencing. For the populist Malema – who in speeches touched on common concerns about wealth gaps and the legacy of Apartheid, or white [...]
Henties Bay, Namibia (dpa) – It’s a hazy morning and clouds of mist are sweeping across the wide plains of clay and rock which stretch to the north of the little fishing village of Henties Bay. The wind is brisk and the clammy cold penetrates the thick ski jacket. Apart from a group of fleeing [...]
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday concluded his first visit to Zambia saying he left the country convinced that it has a bright future, especially because of the commitment of the younger generation to democratic principles, human rights and education. “Today in Livingstone, I had very impressive and inspiring meeting with young girl students [...]
CAIRO: Former South African president Nelson Mandela has been admitted to hospital after suffering from abdominal pains, the SAPA news agency reported Saturday. Mandela, who is 93, has been in ill health for some time. He was unable to make a number of public appearances over the past year due to his age and deteriorating [...]
Johannesburg (dpa) – Four nomadic tribes in remote Namibia have petitioned the United Nations to stop the construction of a massive hydro-electric dam, according to reports on Friday. According to the petitioners, collectively known as the Himba people, generations of their ancestors’ graves would be flooded by the planned construction in the north-east region of [...]
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