Total announces new unit to invest in forests
The head of French energy giant Total announced on Saturday that the company would invest a hundred million dollars annually on a new forest preservation and reforestation project. "We want to set up
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Seven Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe court over rhino horn stash
Seven Chinese nationals appeared in a Zimbabwe court on Thursday after they were arrested last month with rhino horn pieces worth nearly a million dollars. They are facing charges of breaching the country's
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Floods ravage rice production in Niger's Diffa region
Floods destroyed more than 400 hectares of rice in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, already beset by deadly attacks by Boko Haram jihadists, the local governor said. Nearly 3 000 tons of rice worth more
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Two dead including child in Tunisia floods
Flash flooding in central Tunisia killed at least two people including a six-year-old child on Wednesday, the interior ministry said. The drownings came less than a month after torrential rains killed
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Zimbabwe says 'bye bye to maize imports' as farmers 'deliver over 1m tons' – report
Zimbabwe is reportedly now "food secure" and is likely not going to import maize as farmers have delivered over 1 million tons to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) after a "successful Command Agriculture
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Floods in Niger claim 45 lives since June: UN
Forty-five people have died in the arid west African country of Niger in flooding since June, and nearly 209 000 have been affected, the UN said on Tuesday. The rains destroyed nearly 17 400 homes,
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Experts puzzle over massive fish die-off in Sedgefield
Experts from CapeNature are puzzling over a die-off of fish in Groenvlei Lake in the Goukamma Nature Reserve, near Sedgefield. On October 6, fish suddenly began dying in the natural lake, which is the
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More than 30 killed in DRC gold mine: sources
More than 30 gold miners have died in an informal pit in the Democratic Republic of Congo's South Kivu province after a landslide, officials said on Thursday, with dozens more feared trapped. The incident
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Land: Dates set for Parliamentary debate on expropriation without compensation
Parliament is expected to debate whether the Constitution should be amended to allow expropriation without compensation between November 26 and 28. The Joint Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) met
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SA land prices drop 32% on land reform change, drought
Farm prices in South Africa have plunged by a third since the ruling party decided to seek a change to the Constitution to make it easier to expropriate land without compensation. This as commodity prices
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Belgium pledges €30m to SA for land reform
The Belgian government committed €30m to South Africa's land reform process, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu said on Monday after a meeting with that country's deputy