By Ezra Manyibe, Kenyans.co.ke Mansur Mohamed Surur, a Kenyan national, will receive a criminal trial in the United States after he on Friday, December 18, 2020, lost a case attempting to block the government from extraditing him. Milimani Law Courts Chief Margistrate...
By Rene Ebersole, National Geographic When a squad of federal and state law enforcement agents with guns and bulletproof vests entered a single-story brick home in Buffalo, New York, on July 5, 2018 they were searching for business records of a suspected criminal...
By Bulawayo 24 News In Zimbabwe, landmines affect not only local populations but also their precious livestock and wildlife. Thanks to an initial start-up grant from the US government, followed by another grant and strong support from the Swiss Embassy in Harare,...
By Cyril Christo, The Hill “The day we die a soft breeze will wipe out our footprints in the sand. When the wind dies down, who will tell the timelessness that once we walked this way in the dawn of time.” —Bushman Song from “Why Ostriches Don’t Fly” “And...
By Zambezi Current Two elephants were killed yesterday after being hit by a speeding dump truck owned by one of the companies mining coal near Sinamatela Camp inside the Hwange National Park. The driver escaped unscathed in the incident while the 40-ton dump truck was...
By Linzetta Calitz & Chelsea Pieterse, Lowvelder Not only are canines housed at the K9 centre in the Kruger, but also snares that had been left to trap the park’s animals. K9 manager, Johan de Beer has built up a collection of snares, and he guards them well. “I...
By Martha Chikoti, Malawi 24 The African Parks-run Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, to the east of Central Malawi and near Lake Malawi, is one of the two large wildlife areas which have suffered evils of poaching by surrounding communities. Over the years, a high demand...
By Rachel Nuwer - The New York Times A trove from a Portuguese trading ship that sank in 1533 preserved genetic traces of whole lineages that have vanished from West Africa. In 2008, workers searching for diamonds off the coast of Namibia found a different kind of...
By Xinhua GABORONE, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- The Botswanan government will spend millions of pula to compensate farmers that have lost crops due to wild animals, the Wildlife and Natural Parks Director Kabelo Senyatso said on Monday. "Currently we have four projects of...
By Wallace Ruzvidzo - Sunday Mail FIVE poachers were gunned down by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers in 10 incidents of armed confrontation in national parks this year amid an intensifying crackdown on poaching by authorities....