Since the discovery of large offshore oil and gas reserves in 2014, Senegal has set its hopes on fossil fuel export revenue to help fund its plans to become an emerging economy by 2035. Senegal is actively seeking investors to help develop its offshore oil and gas reserves – both …
Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana on Tuesday suspended poultry imports from South Africa with immediate effect following outbreaks of highly contagious H5N8 bird flu. South Africa has confirmed outbreaks of avian flu, which is often transmitted by wild birds, on at least two farms. South Africa and Mozambique banned poultry imports …
Johannesburg - The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) is on Tuesday poised to officially announce a government-approved annual export quota of 800 lion bone skeletons, despite worldwide revulsion and opposition to South Africa's captive lion breeding and canned hunting industries. The latest decision flies in the face of global opinion, …
Lusaka – The Southern African Development Community is losing an estimated $16-million per month through the rampant smuggling of the Pterocarpus Chrysothrix trees, used for fine timber and medicine mostly in the Far East Asia. This financial loss and threat posed to the slow growing species has prompted Zambian President …
Dodoma — The Parliamentary Steering Committee is in an emergency meeting here to discuss the recommendations and the role the legislature can play to support President John Magufuli's resolve to bringing sanity in the mineral sector. The committee, to be chaired by Mr Mussa Azan Zungu (CCM - Ilala), is …
Harare — The government is set to export wildlife to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gambia, the Environment Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said. Muchinguri told The Source that the two countries recently sent special envoys to President Robert Mugabe to forward their requests to purchase Zimbabwe's wildlife. "We have …
Growth rebounded significantly due to strong industrial recovery aided by growth in investment and exports. Capital flows are back, signaling growing investor confidence, as inflation has moderated from double digits, exchange rate has stabilized, and financial sector stress has plateaued. Monetary policy continuity has been maintained and there has been …
SC permitted the export of 2698.056 kl of endosulfan formulation used for the manufacture of the pesticide, lying with different companies & said that the “dilution, packaging and export” of it will be handled by Hindustan Insecticide Ltd. Read this order Supreme Court order on endosulfan dated 13/12/2011. See Also …
Dodoma — Members of Parliament yesterday received the report on content of copper concentrates with what they termed "huge shock" and expressed solidarity with President John Magufuli. The chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Energy and Minerals, Mr Dotto Biteko (Bukombe-CCM), said his committee had been getting a different government …
President John Magufuli and his friend energy and mineral minister Prof Sospeter Muhongo. President John Magufuli is this morning scheduled to receive the much awaited report on the amount and value of the mineral sand containers exported since 1998. The special committee which President Magufuli formed and tasked with the …
When the impoverished West African nation of Niger imposed a ban on donkey exports last year, a small community of traders just over the border in Nigeria was devastated. “Before the ban, you could see thousands of donkeys here,” said Mohammed Sani, a 45-year-old trader in the Nigerian town of …
Tanzania Forestry Services (TFS) has insisted that the ban on export of forest products wouldn't be lifted. TFS Chief Executive Professor Dos Santos Silayo made the statement on Wednesday during a meeting between Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism staffs. Prof Silayo said the …
Kampala — Uganda's electricity exports to Kenya grew 300 per cent in the four months to April as drought cut the neighbouring country's local generation of hydro-electric power by 347 million kilowatt hours. Kenya imported 92.3 million kilowatt hours (kWh) from Uganda in the four months compared to 13.66 million …
This policy brief is based on a roundtable discussion attended by representatives from the government, private financial sector, and research community on how the UK can capitalise on global opportunities for low-carbon goods and services, held in London in March 2017. It outlines the opportunities and threats to trade in …
A new report Monday claims national parks in Cambodia have been gutted to launder illegally logged wood into the Vietnamese timber economy by officials from both countries. The report released after midnight Sunday comes after a months-long investigation carried out by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), and just days …
Cambodia’s government on Friday dismissed accusations by an environmental group that the country is still exporting sand, despite a national ban, saying a vessel seen loading the material in a video the group posted on social media was doing nothing illicit. On May 1, the NGO Mother Nature Cambodia posted …
A Swiss court issued a ruling obliging Egypt to pay a compensation of $2bn to Ampal-American Israel Corporation for the damage caused by the cessation of the export of natural gas from Egypt to Israel in 2012. Government sources revealed Egypt’s intention to negotiate in order to reach a solution …
Recent hydrological modelling and Earth observations have located and quantified alarming rates of groundwater depletion worldwide. This depletion is primarily due to water withdrawals for irrigation but its connection with the main driver of irrigation, global food consumption, has not yet been explored. Here we show that approximately eleven per …
Rapid integration of global agricultural markets and subsequent cropland displacement in recent decades increased large-scale tropical deforestation in South America and Southeast Asia. Growing land scarcity and more stringent land use regulations in these regions could incentivize the offshoring of export-oriented commodity crops to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We assess the …
As the energy system becomes more globalised and interconnected, gas security challenges are evolving. The current period of gas oversupply – driven by overcapacity in the LNG market – should not overshadow the critical importance of global gas security. The Global Gas Security Review 2016, the first edition of a …
Indonesia and the European Union (EU) are stepping up their partnership to combat illegal logging practices by applying the system of wood legalisation for timber exports. Under the partnership, timber exports from Indonesia to the EU will be accompanied from now on by a licence indicating its legal guarantee that …
