The ivory trade is a cruel business. Every 15 minutes an elephant is killed for its ivory. 65 percent of the continents elephants have been killed for their ivory in the last five years. Crime syndicates involved in gun, drug and human trafficking reap huge profits from the ivory trade. So do dangerous terrorist groups…
Rescue Workers Search for Survivors of Cameroon Plane Crash
YAOUNDE, Cameroon—Cameroon rescue workers are searching for survivors after a small passenger plane carrying 11 people crashed in a forest in the central part of the West African country, the ministry of transport said Thursday. The aircraft was chartered by the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company which maintains a hydrocarbon pipeline that runs between Cameroon and…
Nigerian Student Beaten, Burned to Death Over ‘Blasphemous’ Text Messages
KANO, Nigeria—A female Nigerian student was beaten to death and set on fire by fellow students who accused her of posting “blasphemous” statements in a student Whatsapp group, two witnesses and police said. The school, located in Nigeria’s northwesternmost state of Sokoto, was immediately closed down following the attack. Two suspects were arrested in connection…
Chinese Giant Attempts to Muscle in on Australian Miner’s Lithium Project
May 12, 2022
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Australian company, AVZ Minerals, is locked in a legal battle with one of China’s largest miners, Zijin Mining, over an ownership stake that could determine control of one of the world’s largest lithium deposits located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is not the first challenge Australian miners have faced from competing Chinese interests…
Nigerian Army Standing Down as Terrorists Attack Rural Communities with Impunity
Rampaging terrorists have carried out more than 16 bloody attacks in Nigeria’s state of Kaduna in recent weeks, often with Nigerian troops standing by and refusing to assist, according to spokesmen for the Christian communities in the region. Terrorists massacred 25 people in Kauru County on April 25 and burned houses for three hours without…
Illegal Immigrants in UK to Receive 1st Rwanda Relocation Notification This Week
The UK government will start informing some illegal immigrants this week of its intention to relocate them to Rwanda, the Home Office confirmed on Tuesday. The recipients will be warned that they may not be admitted to the UK’s asylum system because they had “travelled through safe countries where they could and should have claimed…
‘No New Investment in Fossil Fuel Expansion’: UN Chief
May 9, 2022
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Antonio Guterres, current head of the United Nations and former president of Socialist International, has asserted there must be “no new investment in fossil fuel expansion” and that private finance must totally divest from coal. “For too long, the financial services sector has enabled the world’s fossil fuel addiction. It is now time for financial…
ISIS Claims Attack That Killed 11 Egyptian Troops
CAIRO—An affiliate of the ISIS terrorist group in Egypt on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack that targeted a water pumping station east of the Suez Canal, killing at least 11 soldiers. At least five other soldiers were wounded in Saturday’s attack, according to the Egyptian military. It was one of the deadliest attacks on…
US and World Gripped by Fertilizer Crisis
May 7, 2022
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“Fertilizer shortages are real now.” Uttered by USAID’s Samantha Power in a May 1 ABC interview with former Democratic advisor George Stephanopoulos, the words briefly drowned out the din of the news cycle. They were not unexpected to some. Power, who served as U.N. ambassador under Obama, mentioned fertilizer shortages after weeks of hints from…
US Should Present Better Alternatives for Africa to Counter China’s Debt-Trap Diplomacy
Commentary African countries should not be left with a “tremendous debt that they cannot repay,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during his visit to the continent in April 2021. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is outpacing the United States in investment and trade in Africa. The ongoing lockdowns in Shanghai and other major…
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