Africa

(The AEGIS Alliance) – Apparently, a presumed poacher got stomped to death by an elephant following the male suspect’s crushed body being discovered in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a…

by Charles Mpaka – MongaBay – Creative Commons A court in Malawi has sentenced a Chinese national to 14 years in jail for masterminding an illegal wildlife trafficking cartel that operated…

by Mongabay.com – MongaBay – Creative Commons Authorities at the Nigeria Customs Service have announced the seizure of 7.1 tons of pangolin scales that smugglers were attempting to ship out of…

by Jim Tan – MongaBay – Creative Commons Gabon recently received the first $17 million of a pledged $150 million from Norway for results-based emission reduction payments as part of…

(The AEGIS Alliance) – Nigerian authorities are looking for hundreds of schoolgirls who have been kidnapped by unidentified armed bandits in an early Friday morning raid, authorities in the northwestern…

(The AEGIS Alliance) – Gunmen believed to belong to a criminal gang have kidnapped hundreds of schoolboys from their hostels together with some teachers in central Nigeria, according to what…

(The AEGIS Alliance) – An American missionary was sentenced to almost 16 years in federal prison for abusing underage girls at a Kenyan orphanage, which he ran together with his…

(The AEGIS Alliance) – KENYA, AFRICA – Three produce traders in Kenya were arrested for using plastic bags, social media users in the region are showing support for those vendors.…

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – One of the biggest wildlife preserves in Africa has marked one year without any elephants being discovered to have been killed by poachers. This is an…

(The AEGIS Alliance) – Andre Kruger displayed a stand at the first ever cannabis exposition in Africa. His stand included an indoor growing tent that has state of the art…