Anxious residents of the Indian Ocean nation Mauritius have stuffed dustbins with sugar leaves to create easy oil spill barriers, as tons of fuel leaking from a ground ship ship puts endangered wildlife at further risk. The government declared on Saturday an environmental need because satellite images showed a dark …
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Award-winning author Tsitsi Dangarembga was arrested in the capital of Zimbabwe while security forces patrolled city streets to avoid anti-government protests called by activists for aIt led to state corruption and the worsening of the country’s economic situation. The novelist was reportedly tied to a police truck on Friday while …
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Tsitsi Dangarembga, the award-winning Zimbabwean novelist who was nominated for the long list of Booker Awards earlier this week, was arrested during anti-corruption protests in Harare. Dangarembga, whose novel This Mournable Body was long-listed for the UK’s first fiction prize alongside Hilary Mantel and Anne Tyler, documented her arrest in …
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The gorilla, known as Rafiki, which means “friend” in Swahili, was part of the famous group of Nkuringo gorillas that lives in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park and is very popular with tourists. Rafiki was reported missing on June 1 and his mutilated body was found the next day inside …
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LONDON / CHICAGO (Reuters) – It is a dog-eating dog in the world of COVID-19 vaccines. That’s the fear that global health agencies will plan a scheme to buy in bulk and distribute vaccines equitably around the world. They watch with dismay how some wealthier countries have decided to go …
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