An environmental lobby group has taken the Zimbabwean government to court in a bid to stop coal mining in the heart of Hwange National Park. The park is home to scores of animals, including large herbivores, carnivores, and many species of birds. The park’s most notable residents are its elephants,
Following a week-long anti-terrorism operation, the Egyptian military managed to kill a number of terrorists totaling to seventy seven. This was a result and part of a crackdown against Islamist extremists in the northern Sinai peninsula. The Egyptian Military located up to 317 dens, hideouts and stores and managed to
Authorisation for continued transport of aid in Syria, a system put in place back in 2014, came to an end last week. Though the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) authorised the cross border aid operation in Syria, with Jordan and Iraq as one of the access points, those crossings were
Five people are dead, and 10 have been injured from a land mine detonated in a restaurant in Baidoa on July 4th. This has happened after al-Shabab claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing carried out last month on a Turkish military base in Mogadishu. An armed vehicle sped through a
The Turkish military has deployed troops to Idlib to monitor the 2017 deescalation conflict. Following the agreement brokered by Turkey and Russia that has been repeatedly violated, it was hoped that the agreement would avert a government assault. The UN said this threatened to create the humanitarian catastrophe of 21st
On 17 January 2020, Kenya Fight Inequality Alliance (Kenya FIA) held the Usawa March to demand that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government take action to fight inequality. Hundreds of activists from across the country joined Kenya FIA and gathered at Freedom Corner at Uhuru Park, in Nairobi City. where they marched
The Current crisis in Cameroon is deadlock. There is no dialogue between the two conflicting groups, who are both being rigid, to give ground. The government is completely dependant on military victory and is ignore the talks that the separatists demand. Sine this friction has been ongoing since several months
Plastics that have been broken down into small pieces are called microplastics. They enter the ocean through common means of pollution such as littering from ships or discharge from rivers that drain into the oceans. The plastics that enter the oceans may then be broken down by bacteria into small
Last year, an audit of plastic pollution found that Nestlé is one of the top three plastic polluters in the world. In 2017, 98% of its products, including beverages, were packaged in single-use packing. The corporation produced 1.7 million tonnes of plastic last year as a result of its throwaway
On April 23rd 2015, thousands marched through the streets of Johannesburg’s Central Business District to protest a wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. In March 2019, similar attacks were reported, this time in Durban. The locals are targeting foreigners, who they accuse of taking their jobs and being the
U.S. and Kurdish forces have attacked the last stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) . Aerial bombings of the town of Hajin, where the last remnants of ISIL are located, have increased and SDF commanders are making progress. This being the last territory, ISIL analysts
