Hillary Orinde

1 day ago | barrons.com | Hillary Orinde

Global fragmentation is fuelling unprecedented turmoil and disproportionately harming poorer nations, South Africa's foreign minister warned Thursday, urging a united G20 response for peace. Ronald Lamola made the remarks to dozens of diplomats from the G20 group of the world's leading economies meeting to prepare for its summit in November under South Africa's presidency.

4 days ago | enca.com | Hillary Orinde

Islamic State-linked militants active in northern Mozambique are increasingly abducting children, with at least 120 kidnapped this year, although some have already been released, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The gas-rich region has been plagued for years by jihadist violence that has killed thousands of people, caused others to flee and forced the suspension of a giant gas exploration project by TotalEnergies.

2 weeks ago | barrons.com | Hillary Orinde

A winter chill hung over the windswept cemetery in South Africa's eastern town of Cradock where the untended graves of four activists assassinated by the apartheid regime were watched over by a monument in their memory, itself in disrepair. In the city of Gqeberha two hours' drive away, the murders in 1985 of the young men in one of the most notorious atrocities of the previous regime was the focus of an emotional courtroom inquest into the deaths.

3 weeks ago | actu.orange.fr | Hillary Orinde

© AFP, STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN L'étude, publiée par le journal Science, a été réalisée entre 2017 et 2023 dans onze réserves autour du parc Kruger, la plus grande réserve animalière d'Afrique du Sud. Au cours de cette période, 1.985 rhinocéros ont été braconnés dans les réserves naturelles de la région du Grand Kruger en dépit des 74 millions de dollars dépensés pour appliquer la loi, des mesures qui ont permis l'arrestation de quelque 700 braconniers, selon l'étude.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Hillary Orinde

The dehorning of rhinos resulted in a nearly 80-percent reduction in the poaching of the animals during a seven-year study in a major South African conservation area, researchers said Thursday. Sawing off the sought-after horns was also a fraction of the cost of other counter-poaching measures such as deploying rangers or tracking dogs, according to the study published in the journal Science.