As Nigeria tries to work out a way to solve the herdsmen-farmers conflict, Tanzania faces a different dimension of the problem:herdsmen versus the wildlife in the parks. Tanzania during the week found six lions and 74 vultures dead near a national park, south of the country, after they were
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Suspected Al-Shabaab militants killed three Kenyan teachers and injured one other in an attack on Friday in a school in the country’s northeastern county of Wajir, officials said. Mohamud Saleh, Coordinator of Kenya’s Northeastern Region, said the militants in the early morning attack, the Qarsa primary school near the borders with Somalia and Ethiopia, in […]
An Australian farmer who shot dead an “iconic” 100-year-old crocodile because he was “sick of losing cattle” has been fined $8,000 (10,000 Australian dollars). The 5.2-metre crocodile was shot between the eyes in a river next to a farm in Rockhampton in central Queensland in September. Luke Orchard, 31, pleaded guilty in court but said […]
Unidentified hackers stole 339.5 million rubles ($6 million) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a central bank report on digital thefts at Russian banks, is the latest in a string of attempted and […]
The Vatican on Thursday denied a German magazine report that claimed that former Pope Benedict was suffering from a paralyzing disease of the nervous system. A Vatican spokesman said a report in the German magazine Neue Post quoting Benedict’s older brother was false. The magazine quoted Georg Ratzinger, 94, who is a priest, as saying: […]
A father of two who transitioned to be a woman after eight years of marriage is transitioning back to being a man after just seven months. James Cohen, 36, told his wife, Eirian, 36, that he wanted to become a woman after claiming he’d hidden his gender secret since he was a child. But James, […]
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