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South Africa at a crossroads on wildlife welfare and sentience by Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick June 1, 2021 South Africa at a crossroads on wildlife welfare and sentience by Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick June 1, 2021 First published in Daily Maverick 168 newspaper The 17th-century mathematician and philosopher René Descartes said animals were automatons, so cruelty towards them was impossible. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham disagreed, saying that in our measure of animals we should not ask can ...

The fight to protect the ocean and boost economies on the way

For Nutrition Security, USDA Must Support Sustainable Food Systems May 28, 2021 In a press conference in early March, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made a subtle but significant shift in the language used to describe the department’s approach to fighting hunger and promoting health. “It’s very easy to talk in this country about food insecurity,” Vilsack said. “But I think there’s a much larger problem we have to confront, which is not only food insecurity but nutrition insecu...

More than 40 donors and aid agencies have committed to fixing the aid system. But can they avoid getting bogged down by the details?

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Africa Travel Week has thrown its full support behind the recent announcement by South Africa Environmental Affairs Minister Barbara Creecy putting an end to captive lion breeding. This follows the findings of a High-Level Panel (HLP) which submitted recommendations on policies, regulatory measures, practices and policy positions related to hunting, trade, captive keeping, management and handling of elephant, lion, leopard and rhinoceros. “Beyond the damage that captive lion breeding does to ...

Daily Monitor Thursday May 13 2021 President Museveni shortly after arriving for his swearing-in ceremony for a sixth elective term at Kololo Independence Grounds yesterday. PHOTO | DAVID LUBOWA Summary Speaking behind bullet-proof glass frames, the Ugandan leader revealed for the first time publicly that he and the then South African President Jacob Zuma clandestinely schemed to counter the invaders of Libya in 2011. Advertisement President Museveni yesterday exhorted Africans to unite and bui...

No talks with India until Aug 2019 steps undone: PM Imran Imran says BJP’s Hindu supremacist ideology being condemned at global level Prime Minister Imran Khan addressing a live broadcast session on May 11, 2021. SCREENGRAB ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that Islamabad will not resume talks with New Delhi until it restores the special status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir. "Unless India reverts its August 5, 2019 action, Pakistan will not hold talks," Premier I...

KENYA KAMBOWE RUNDU The Grootfontein municipality is scrambling to collect rent from tenants who rent townlands, with some paying monthly rent as little as N$820 for a 600-hectare farm. The farms - commonly referred to as camps - are situated in the country’s breadbasket known as the Maize Triangle. The town’s chief executive officer, Kisco Sinvula, last week confirmed that the municipality had sent out “dozens” of letters of demand. “The outstanding balance is classified and confiden...

  As the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic unfolds, the United States has entered a new phase of heightened hope in the race to control the outbreak and get ahead of evolving variants. The U.S. government and health sector share an imperative to move quickly to immunize at scale and to address disparities in vaccine access at home and abroad. Doctor John Rajiv writes a note before receiving his first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in December 2020. | JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Ge...