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Africa’s largest oil and gas producing nations to meet in Cape Town

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Seventeen Ministers from Africa’s largest energy producing nations, including countries such as Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Tunisia among others, have agreed to meet in Cape Town for this year’s Africa Oil Week taking place from 4-8 November 2019 to broker new partnerships for their energy sectors.The ministers will be using […]

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Deportation Protection Extended One Year for Liberian Refugees in the US

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In a suprising turn of events, President Trump released a presidential memorandum last week that  extends the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) status for around 4,000 Liberian refugees who feared they would be deported at the end of the month. Although not a solution, the one-year extension will provide much needed relief for the community. This

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Trophy hunting threatens giraffes with extinction; U.S. conservationist groups sue Trump administration

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Conservationist groups in the United States brought a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday for not protecting giraffes via the country’s Endangered Species Act.  The suit challenges the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s refusal to act on a public petition from April 2017 seeking Endangered Species Act protection for giraffes. The agency is required

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Freeing the Snake: Protecting Idaho’s Wild Salmon

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By: Jessica Colleen McDermott This article first appeared on ourpositiveplanet.com   Idaho’s wild salmon are headed towards extinction. This fact, though often ignored by politicians and government agencies, has been at the forefront of conservation groups’ work for decades. These groups form a coalition of non-profits strewn across the Western US with the singular, shared

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The facade of press freedom in Magufuli’s Tanzania

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The facade of press freedom in Tanzania was exposed on Wednesday November 7 following the arrest of two journalists and press freedom campaigners, Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Quintal and Mumo were detained yesterday at their hotel in Dar es Salaam by

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Radio journalist killed in Somalia

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A Somali radio journalist, Abdullahi Mire Hashi has been killed by two unidentified gunmen in the town of Elasha Biyaha, some 17km from the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Reports say Abdullahi, the producer and host of a daily show broadcast on the privately owned radio station Darul Sunnah, was shot after attending afternoon prayers at a mosque near

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Cameroon detains another journalist

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Authorities in Cameroon have been asked to immediately release Michel Biem Tong, editor of the privately owned Hurinews website, who was detained on October 23, 2018 after being summoned to the State Secretariat for Defense in the capital, Yaoundé. Prior to his arrest, Tong had published articles criticizing the Cameroonian government’s handling

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