Kenya
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Crime | Economy | Industry | Law | Livestock | People | Pollution | Water | Wildlife
Tana biofuel could be illegal
afrol News, 5 May - Implementation of plans to grow biofuel crops on an idyllic river plain in Kenya could be illegal if implemented in its current form, arguing that its cost has been underestimated while profit overestimated.
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Niger
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Crime | Development | Economy | Law | Management | Nature | Oceans - Fisheries | People | Policy | Pollution | Water
Niger River to be rescued
afrol News, 2 May - West African leaders on Wednesday endorsed a 20-year rescue plan to save the Niger River from extinction. The US $8.6 billion project includes reforesting, rehabilitating plains and removing silt from the 4,200 km long river.
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South Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Economy | Finance | People | Poverty | Wildlife
S. Africa avitourism viable
afrol News, 11 April - Tempted by the success of its avitourism [birding's ecotourism] conservation, BirdLife has announced the development of six new birding routes in South Africa's Western Cape and Cape Town areas. Read more
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Affairs | Affairs | Nature | Policy
Climate change threatens Africa
afrol News, 3 April - The development of better meteorological services are crucial for Africa's development and its fight against poverty, considering its vulnerability to climate change, variability and extreme weather events, a conference of finance and economy meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa was told. Read more
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Kenya | Sudan
Conservation | Wildlife
Lapwings tracked to Sudan
afrol News, 28 February - Two Sociable lapwings Vanellus gregarius, satellite tagged in Kazakhstan last summer, have flown more than 5,000 miles to central Sudan, where they have spent the winter, 'BirdLife International' reported. Read more
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South Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Crime | Economy | Law | Management | People | Tourism | Wildlife
SA elephant cull condemned
afrol News, 26 February - Animal rights activists have condemned South African government's readiness to legalise culling to control the rising elephant population. Read more
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Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Crime | Law | Management | People | Trade | Wildlife
Illegal ivory trade still rampant
afrol News, 31 January - Illegal ivory smuggling continues to take place at an alarming rate, despite seizure of hundreds of kilograms, dismantling of networks and nabbing of smugglers. Read more
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Tanzania
Affairs | Conservation | Diseases | Economy | Industry | People | Water | Wildlife
Communities reject soda plant
afrol News, 29 January - Communities close to Tanzania's Lake Natron had publicly opposed to the proposed plans to erect soda ash plant in the area. The plant will threaten the survival of the world's largest population of Lesser Flamingo Phoeniconaias minor. Read more
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Africa
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Cooperation | Development | Diplomacy | Oceans - Fisheries | People
Denmark unveils Africa plan
afrol News, 28 January - Ahead of the 2009 United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 15) to be held in Copenhagen, the Danish government has revealed plans to tackle global climate change with African countries. Read more
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Zambia
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Law | Oppression | Wildlife
Court backs Zambian satirist
afrol News, 24 January - The Supreme Court in Zambia has rejected the government's demands to deport a British satirists, Roy Clarke, for reportedly insulting the Zambian President, Levy Mwanawasa in 2004. Read more
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Africa
Food Security | Natural sciences | Nature
African climate change: Blooming Sahara or hunger and war?
African Future, 21 December - Almost nobody doubts the climate is about to change, also in Africa. But how will it change, and must it be to the negative? There exist two colliding views of what a warmer climate will mean in Africa. One focuses on more droughts, natural disasters, spread of diseases and resource conflicts. Other scientists hold that many of Africa's poorest regions will get more rainfall, with the Sahara desert again becoming as green as it was 6,000 years ago. Read more
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Cameroon
Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Policy | Wildlife
Cameroon gorilla saga over
afrol News, 28 November - The return of the four smuggled Cameroon gorillas on Friday will seal the five-year saga surrounding the issue. The gorillas' return has been confirmed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW). Read more
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Tanzania
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Economy | Tourism | Wildlife
Tanzania ecotourism threatened
afrol News, 27 November - Tanzanian authorities have been warned to drop plans to erect a chemical production plan in its Lake Natron as this will not only extinct the region's Lesser Flaming, but also the growing ecotourism trade linked to the birds. Read more
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Uganda
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diseases | Economy | Good governance | History | HIV-AIDS | Law | Nature | People | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Socio-economic | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes
Queen lauds Uganda peace
afrol News, 22 November - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the head of the Commonwealth has lauded the Ugandan government for striving hard to find a peaceful resolution to the conflict that plagued the country's northern region. Read more
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Kenya
People | Wildlife
Hyenas kill Kenya lion killer
afrol News, 21 November - After single-handedly killing a lion on Friday, a Kenyan warrior was attacked by a pack of hyenas. Moses Lakalau, 35, died of blood loss at the Kenyatta National Hospital Intensive Care Unit in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday.
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Gambia
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Crime | Economy | Food Security | Law | Oceans - Fisheries | Socio-economic | Trade | Wildlife
Gambia hippos destroy crops
afrol News, 15 November - Rice growers in at least 26 Gambian provincial villages have had their crops destroyed by hippopotamus and bush pigs. Read more
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Uganda
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Economy | Law | Management | Nature | Policy | Wildlife
Conservationists applaud Uganda
afrol News, 31 October - Conservationists have applauded the Ugandan government’s decision to drop its plan to give away a third of Mabira Forest Reserve land for sugarcane plantations. Read more
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Madagascar
Affairs | Affairs | Economy | Expression | Land rights | Mining | Trade
Conflict over Malagasy mine
afrol News, 19 October - New research carried out by international development agency, Panos London, shows that differences of understanding about a new mining project in Southern Madagascar have already led to mistrust and social conflict which, unless addressed, could escalate. Read more
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Uganda
Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Development | Economy | Land rights | Mining | Nature | Policy
Uganda conserves habitat
afrol News, 19 October - Ugandan authorities have scrapped a project meant to sacrifice Africa's last pluvial habitats [Mabira Forest] to Mehta Group, an Indian company that owns Sugar Corporation of Uganda. Read more
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Affairs | Affairs | Conservation | Economy | Mining | Wildlife
African conservationists oppose flamingo extinction
afrol News, 16 October - Leading conservationist from 24 African nations met in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to sign a petition opposing the proposed chemical plant on the shores of Tanzania’s Lake Natron. Conservationists attending the BirdLife’s Council meeting fear the plant would extinct 75% of the world’s Lesser Flamingo population. Read more
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