French government sacks Paris's Police chief, threatens to ban ‘yellow vest’ protests
France’s prime minister has said Paris’s police chief has been sacked in response to the latest “gilets jaunes” (yellow vest) protest that transformed the capital into chaos with scenes of rioting and looting on Saturday. With pressure mounting, France’s Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said police strategy for maintaining order was not correctly executed, resulting in […]
More than 1,000 feared dead after cyclone in Mozambique
More than 1,000 people were feared dead in Mozambique four days after a cyclone slammed into the country, submerging entire villages and leaving bodies floating in the floodwaters, the nation’s president said. “It is a real disaster of great proportions,” President Filipe Nyusi said. Cyclone Idai could prove to be the deadliest storm in generations […]
‘Most plastic ever seen in a whale’, say biologists after mammal dies
16 rice sacks, 4 banana bags and multiple shopping bags were found during an autopsy of a young male Cuvier’s beaked whale that washed up on a beach in the Philippines on Saturday. Marine biologists and volunteers from the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City, on the Philippine island of Mindanao say the 4.69 metre […]
Ghana bans harvesting of Rosewood
The Ministry of lands and Natural Resources has directed the Forestry Commission to ban the harvesting of Rosewood in the country. Rosewood is one of the tree species found in the middle belt and Northern parts of the country. The Commission is also to suspend the issuance and processing of the Convention on International Trade […]
