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Greenpeace called on the world’s electronics companies Tuesday to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their products, saying toxic waste from wealthy nations’ gadgets ends up being dumped in poor countries despite laws prohibiting it.
More than 1,000 soldiers have left a national park that has been on the front lines of fighting in eastern Congo in a move the park director said was intended to preserve an environment that is home to endangered gorillas, hippos and active volcanoes.
Unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle belonging to an international conservation group in an eastern Congo gorilla reserve, killing two people and wounding three others, officials and a U.N.-funded radio station said Wednesday.The vehicle belonged to...
A cottage industry that employed people, including many mothers, to extract poisonous lead from used car batteries has been blamed for the deaths of nearly 20 children in a Senegalese fishing town.The World Health Organization pressed Tuesday for quick...
Internal U.N. documents show investigators “ignored, minimized or shelved” numerous charges of gold smuggling and arms trading by its peacekeepers in Congo, an international rights organization said Friday.Allegations of such misconduct by peacekeepers...
South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on killing elephants Thursday, a move conservationists warn could encourage poachers to slaughter the animals for ivory and threaten dwindling populations elsewhere on the continent.Elephants _ once on the verge of...
South Africa has lifted a 13-year ban on elephant culling.Once on the verge of extinction in some parts of South Africa, elephant numbers in that country have recently grown at a rate of more than 5 percent a year.Conservationists warn the removal of the...
On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat.Like a pup, he lay curled against the cold, pressed between dozens of other children sleeping head-to-toe on the concrete floor. His T-shirt was damp with the dew that seeped...
On the day he decided to run away, 9-year-old Coli awoke on a filthy mat.Like a pup, he lay curled against the cold, pressed between dozens of other children sleeping head-to-toe on the concrete floor. His T-shirt was damp with the dew that seeped...
More than 50 school children underwent hospital treatment Friday after developing what educators called mass hysteria, marked by fainting and screaming.Firefighters immediately shut down Dakar’s Lamine Gueye Secondary School and Senegal Minister of...
MSNBC tells us that the heads of Islamic nations have just concluded a high level meeting at Dakar, Senegal. The Muslim heads of states are worried how Islam is portrayed by Western countries. The delegates were each given a tome prepared by the...
Female circumcision is a ‘rite of passage’ for young girls from childhood to adulthood. This cruel practice involves the removal of the clitoris and other parts of the female genitalia. Followers of this practice believe that it is an effective way...
Mittal Steel Co. has again displayed its rare appetite for doing business in high-risk locations. Arcelor Mittal have signed agreements to spend about $2.2 billion for developing iron-ore mining in Senegal in what it hopes will be a first step in...
Africa is a land that has been torn apart by war and disease. For over 40 years, this has resulted in international condemnation and sanctions, tribal conflict, racial hatred and the inevitable result is famine, disease and poverty for the general...
The days between the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, that is, November 25 and International Human Rights Day, that is, December 10, are termed as ‘16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence’, which means that the days...
The former world number one Serena Williams may be struggling with her injuries to make it back to the court, but she is one player who believes in making a difference in the lives of the inopportune. She was on a humanitarian visit to Africa, a tour...
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, gestures to Philippe Douste-Blazy, left, special advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and UNITAID board chairman, during a Clinton Foundation event in Dakar, Senegal, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008. Senegal was the final...
