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Guest Column - April 7 marks the start of Kwibuka, the commemoration period of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, a cataclysmic event which saw one million killed in barely 100 days.
A Nigeria Railways Corporation official said the train departs Ibadan for Lagos at 8am daily with a return trip scheduled at 4pm.
The Lagos-Ibadan expressway is notorious for heavy trucks and traffic gridlocks that can stretch for several kilometres.
The Lagos-Ibadan line is the first part of a new 2,733km Lagos-Kano standard gauge line. The total cost of the project was valued at $11.117bn.
[This Day] The Senate yesterday expressed displeasure at reports that the nation loses over $120 million annually to the patronage of foreign shipping firms in the shipment of petroleum products.
[Gender Links] Lungile Sibindi (43), emerges from the bellies of the earth, her face covered in dust of the red soils of Inyathi. She needs to take a brief lunch break, however she and her colleagues will have to round up work as the skies are threatening a downpour.
[New Frame] Small-scale fishers in northern KwaZulu-Natal are demanding justice from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park Authority after rangers allegedly shot and killed a resident who was fishing in St Lucia Lake.
[East African] Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has called on Rwandans to support new cardinal, Antoine Kambanda, the country's first cardinal.
Netball South Africa have confirmed that the SPAR Proteas will take on Uganda in a three-match Test series in Cape Town in early 2021.
[This Day] Analysts at Afrinvest West Africa Limited have reiterated the need for the federal government to be concerned about the country's rising debt profile, saying it is becoming unsustainable.
Save the Giraffes
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), Save Giraffes Now , and the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) make up the team of conservation groups coordinating a daring and unusual rescue operation to save eight Rothschild’s giraffes from the flooded Longicharo Island near Lake Baringo in Western Kenya.
The team is using a specially adapted barge to float the giraffes one-by-one to a nearby nature preserve on custom-made steel that is part of the Ruko Community
Wildlife Conservancy built by the local Ruko community for animal rescues.
The animals are part of a group of Rothschild's giraffes that were sent to the remote Kenyan Rift Valley in 2011 in anti-poaching protection efforts and in the hopes that the tranquillity of the remote area would help increase the subspecies' population.
Not Out of Danger Just Yet
Asiwa, an adult female, was the first giraffe to arrive \"safely on the mainland, safe from rising floodwaters.\" She had been stranded on a more remote part of the island away from the other giraffes — making her rescue a priority. Pasaka, a young male was the second giraffe to be brought to safety.
The same barge will likely be used to move the remaining six giraffes — five females, Susan, Nkarikoni, Nalangu, Awala, and Nasieku, and one adult male, Lbarnnoti, who are still stranded on the island which has been steadily shrinking due to intense rainfall.
With six more to go, the rescue team stated at least one more giraffe is set to be moved this week, with the rest likely to be moved over the next few months.
Giraffe Protection Efforts in Kenya
Africa’s population of giraffes has been on a steady decline over the last few decades due to habitat loss and poaching activity. However, some subspecies within the giraffe family are at higher risk of extinction than others. One of the most threatened populations is The Rothschild’s giraffe —who once roamed the entire western Rift Valley in Kenya, but there are fewer than 3,000 left in Africa today with as little as 1,600 of these giraffes are estimated to still be living in the wild and only about 800 in Kenya.
WESTERN BUREAU: Opposition Senator Dr Floyd Morris, who was recently elected to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, wants Jamaica’s church community to ensure that it supports the passage of the Disabilities Act...
Book Review - In this timely history, John Laband carefully examines how white settlers in the Cape systematically dispossessed African societies of their land.
Despite so much uncertainty in the world, many couples are still certain they want to get married this winter. Even though it may not be exactly as they imagined, there are plenty of ways to host a safe, COVID-friendly wedding ceremony.
[Africom] U.S. Africa Command Public Affairs -- In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted two (2) airstrikes targeting al-Shabaab explosives experts in the vicinity of Jilib, Somalia, Dec. 10.
[Nation] A nurse at the Kakamega County General Hospital died on Tuesday, becoming the latest casualty of the ongoing nationwide strike by health workers agitating for better working conditions.
[Nation] Tanzanian ex-MP, Godbless Lema, has flown to Canada with his family after being granted political asylum in the country.
[Monitor] By Patience Ahimbisibwe
[Africa In Fact] Strong medicine: the COVID-19 effect
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “As a leading congressional advocate of debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries and a supporter of the Jubilee movement, I am especially proud of President Rawlings’ advocacy for African nations to have their international debts cancelled. Debt relief was critical to free more than thirty-five of the world’s poorest countries – […]
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Dear Editor,
Yesterday, December 9th, 2020 marked World Genocide Commemoration Day.
The article Romas have been subjected to one of the longest and most sustained ethnic persecution appeared first on Stabroek News.
Commentary: Skipping Christmas
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[Dalsan Radio] At least four soldiers have been killed and several injured after clashes at a security checkpoint outside Somali capital.
[Algerie Presse Service] ALGIERS-The re-inclusion of the Sahrawi issue on the agenda of the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) \"is a real achievement and another blow to the Morocco and its allies,\" affirmed Wednesday Ambassador the of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to Algiers Abdelkader Taleb Omar.
[Africa In Fact] COVID-19: an African overview
In Guyana, the people most negatively affected by corruption are women and men who are workers, farmers, small business people and the poor.
The article More women in decision-making positions in politics will lead to less corruption appeared first on Stabroek News.
