Just before dawn, Last Saturday the Civil Guard boat “Río Miño” rescued 24 migrants in the Alboran Sea, 50 miles south of Nerja. The occupants 23 men and one woman all of Maghrebi origin (North African) were picked up by the Civil Guard boat and transferred to the Maritime Rescue boat “Salvamar Alnitak” before being taken to the Port of …
The world’s most valuable individual prize, the Mo Ibrahim prize for good governance in Africa, has gone unclaimed for the fourth time in five years. The $5m prize is supposed to be awarded each year to an elected leader who governed well, raised living standards and then left office. The prize was launched seven years ago by Sudan-born telecoms entrepreneur …
The poaching of rhinoceros in Africa, ostensibly for the horns, is apparently at an all-time high, conventional means of combating poaching seemingly innefective. One man, a nature preserve owner, has come up with a very different idea to try and stop the practice, although it does raise a few legal and ethical questions….Toxic Avenger…