Antony Sguazzin

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Antony Sguazzin |Ray Ndlovu

Street traders in the central business district of Harare. Photographer: Cynthia R Matonhodze/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe has asked South Africa to help garner support for its debt to be revamped under the Group of 20’s Common Framework, a step that could restore its access to international capital markets for the first time in more than 25 years.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Paul Vecchiatto |Antony Sguazzin

A farmer walks between chickens at a chicken farm outside Frankfort, South Africa. (Bloomberg) -- South Africa, struggling to reset relations with the US, is willing to give way on so-called phytosanitary requirements for poultry-meat imports, but fears an impasse with its second-biggest trading partner over pork shipments.

3 weeks ago | infobae.com | Antony Sguazzin

La mejor y más económica manera de proteger a los rinocerontes, cuya población ha disminuido drásticamente en los últimos 15 años debido a la caza furtiva, es cortarles los cuernos, según investigadores que realizaron un estudio de siete años en el sur de África. El análisis de la caza furtiva antes y después de cortar los cuernos de casi 2.300 rinocerontes mostró que remover estas protuberancias compuestas de queratina redujo el crimen en un 78%.

3 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Antony Sguazzin

A dehorned black rhino in the Greater Kruger region, South Africa. (Bloomberg) -- The best and cheapest way to protect rhinos, whose population has plummeted over the last 15 years because of poaching, is to cut off their horns, according to researchers who carried out a seven-year study in southern Africa. The analysis of poaching before and after the de-horning of almost 2,300 rhinos showed that removing the keratin-based protrusions cut the crime by 78%.

3 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Antony Sguazzin |Michael Kavanagh

The World Bank said it is committing $1 billion to help the Democratic Republic of Congo prepare for the development of the next stage of what could be the world’s biggest hydropower project. The bank will initially commit $250 million toward Inga III, a portion of the Grand Inga hydropower complex.