15+ hour, 24+ min ago  (337+ words) A six-year-old girl has raised "548 to protect endangered pangolins. Ivory was inspired to take action after learning about the world's most trafficked mammal during an educational wildlife show when she was just four years old. The Animal Guyz, who combine…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (213+ words) DAR ES SALAAM, June 26 (Reuters) - Tanzania's interior minister, Patrobas Katambi, said on Friday the government "was banning all political rallies, less than "two weeks before youth-led protests planned for July 7. " Katambi told "lawmakers in parliament that the ban was because…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (619+ words) Against the backdrop of the World Cup, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and Spanish King Felipe VI on Thursday looked to ease diplomatic tensions following Mexico's demand for an apology over the colonial-era conquest. The Spanish monarch arrived in Mexico City…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (309+ words) Many of us in the global development community are proactively working on strategies to support smallholder farmers " who are among the populations most vulnerable to crises " to strengthen their resilience to shocks and thereby escape repeated cycles of poverty and…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (750+ words) Mounds of garbage, potholed roads and sewage spills: grim conditions like these led voters near Johannesburg to abandon their long-time loyalty to the ANC and hand the rival DA its first black township ward in South Africa. For the Democratic…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (108+ words) A solitary elephant emerged from nearby woodland and entered a residential property in Coorg, Karnataka, during the early morning hours of June 22, walking calmly through a garden and paved courtyard as dogs barked and alarmed residents looked on. Locals in…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago  (795+ words) Nearly two weeks after his return to his homeland, James, 52, is trying to settle back into the life he left 10 years ago when he packed his suitcases and headed for South Africa on a six-month visitor's visa. He overstayed his…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (376+ words) A sixth form is teaming up with businesses to help students take their first steps into the world of work. Darwen Business Exchange (DBE) will host Head of School Alex Venables from Darwen Aldridge Sixth Form (D6) at its next meeting…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (732+ words) Inflammatory social media posts -- including of men brandishing a machete or calling foreigners "leeches" -- are stoking emotions around an unofficial demand for illegal immigrants to leave South Africa by the end of the month, fuelling a volatile situation, analysts say....

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (189+ words) JUBA, June 19 (Reuters) - A Vietnamese man deported by the United States to South "Sudan a year ago as part of "the Trump administration's hardline immigration agenda left for Vietnam on "Friday, South Sudanese officials said. " Tuan Thanh Phan was among…...