Hereward Holland

5 days ago | timeslive.co.za | Hereward Holland

09 May 2025 - 16:07 Just R20 for the first month. Support independent journalism by subscribing to our digital news package. Pedestrians walk outside the Safaricom customer care centre during the launch of its 5G internet service in the CBD of Nairobi, Kenya. Partly owned by South Africa's Vodacom and Britain's Vodafone, the company launched in Ethiopia in 2022. File photo.

5 days ago | telecom.economictimes.indiatimes.com | Hereward Holland

By Hereward Holland NAIROBI: Kenyan telecoms firm Safaricom said on Friday that its earnings could surge as much as 50% this financial year as it projected that losses in key expansion market Ethiopia would fall steeply. Safaricom, partly owned by South Africa's Vodacom and Britain's Vodafone, launched in Ethiopia in 2022 as the government there opened up the tightly-controlled economy to foreign competition.

6 days ago | timeslive.co.za | Hereward Holland

Fighting along the Nile River in South Sudan has prevented humanitarian aid reaching more than 60,000 malnourished children in the northeast of the country for almost a month, two UN agencies said on Thursday. The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) and agency for children (Unicef) said they expect nutrition supplies for Upper Nile State, which has some of the highest rates of malnutrition in the country, to run out by the end of May. “Children are already the first to suffer during emergencies.

1 week ago | primeafrica.co.ke | Humphrey Malalo |Hereward Holland |Monicah Mwangi

Ant smuggling poses additional threat to wildlife ecosystem Queen ants would fetch over $900,000 in Asia, North America and Europe, magistrate says Kenya Wildlife Service warns against biodiversity plunder Nairobi, Kenya - A Kenyan court has handed down landmark fines to four men involved in the attempted trafficking of thousands of rare queen ants, in a case that experts say signals a shift in global biopiracy from iconic species like elephants to lesser-known but ecologically vital insects....

1 week ago | ca.marketscreener.com | Hereward Holland |Humphrey Malalo

NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan court on Wednesday fined four men $7,700 each for trying to traffic thousands of ants valuable to the country's ecosystem, in cases experts say signal a shift in biopiracy from trophies like elephant ivory to lesser-known species. Authorities arrested two Belgian teenagers, a Vietnamese man and a Kenyan national on April 5, accusing them in two separate cases of trying to smuggle out roughly 5,440 giant African harvester queen ants.