De Beers moves 200 elephants from South Africa to Mozambique

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mozambique suffers from some of the highest rates of poaching for ivory Diamond producer De Beers says it has started an operation to move 200 elephants from its game reserve in South Africa to Mozambique. The elephant population at the private Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve was too high, and […]

De Beers moves 200 elephants from South Africa to Mozambique

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mozambique suffers from some of the highest rates of poaching for ivory Diamond producer De Beers says it has started an operation to move 200 elephants from its game reserve in South Africa to Mozambique. The elephant population at the private Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve was too high, and […]

De Beers moves 200 elephants from South Africa to Mozambique

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mozambique suffers from some of the highest rates of poaching for ivory Diamond producer De Beers says it has started an operation to move 200 elephants from its game reserve in South Africa to Mozambique. The elephant population at the private Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve was too high, and […]

De Beers moves 200 elephants from South Africa to Mozambique

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mozambique suffers from some of the highest rates of poaching for ivory Diamond producer De Beers says it has started an operation to move 200 elephants from its game reserve in South Africa to Mozambique. The elephant population at the private Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve was too high, and […]

Somalia’s al-Shabab carries out attack on military base

Image copyright AFP Image caption Al-Shabab is an al-Qaeda-linked group fighting to overthrow the UN-backed Somali government Militant Islamists have stormed a military base in southern Somalia after detonating a suicide car bomb. Al-Shabab says its fighters killed 27 soldiers in the raid, about 50km (31 miles) from the port city of Kismayo. A government […]

Somalia’s al-Shabab carries out attack on military base

Image copyright AFP Image caption Al-Shabab is an al-Qaeda-linked group fighting to overthrow the UN-backed Somali government Militant Islamists have stormed a military base in southern Somalia after detonating a suicide car bomb. Al-Shabab says its fighters killed 27 soldiers in the raid, about 50km (31 miles) from the port city of Kismayo. A government […]

Somalia’s al-Shabab carries out attack on military base

Image copyright AFP Image caption Al-Shabab is an al-Qaeda-linked group fighting to overthrow the UN-backed Somali government Militant Islamists have stormed a military base in southern Somalia after detonating a suicide car bomb. Al-Shabab says its fighters killed 27 soldiers in the raid, about 50km (31 miles) from the port city of Kismayo. A government […]

Somalia’s al-Shabab carries out attack on military base

Image copyright AFP Image caption Al-Shabab is an al-Qaeda-linked group fighting to overthrow the UN-backed Somali government Militant Islamists have stormed a military base in southern Somalia after detonating a suicide car bomb. Al-Shabab says its fighters killed 27 soldiers in the raid, about 50km (31 miles) from the port city of Kismayo. A government […]

Toronto shooting: Gunman kills two in Greektown district

Media caption‘It just seemed very surreal’ Two people have been killed and 12 others wounded, one of them critically, by a gunman who opened fire on a busy avenue in Canada’s largest city. One of the dead was a young woman, while the person critically injured in the attack in the Greektown district of Toronto […]

Trump and Iran’s Rouhani trade angry threats

Image copyright Reuters/AFP Image caption Donald Trump fired off a capitalised tweet warning Iran’s President Rouhani to “BE CAUTIOUS!” US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani have traded hostile warnings, amid rising tensions between the two countries. Mr Trump tweeted Iran would “suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever […]