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Zimbabwe slow in implementing UN Minamata Convention to stop using toxic mercury

Zimbabwe joined gold miners from Indonesia to Peru last year by ratifying the United Nations Minamata Convention on Mercury, an international treaty adopted in 2013, that seeks to phase out the toxic metal to protect human health and the environment. Inhaling fumes or regular contact with mercury during gold mining can each have devastating effects […]

Tunisia: Capital punishment for sixteen jihadists involved in the Ben Guerdane bloody attacks in 2016

Tunisian justice has sentenced sixteen jihadists to death for their involvement in the terrorist attacks which in 2016 left dozens dead and others injured in the Ben Guerdane region, near Libya’s borders. According to a press release from the Court of First Instance of Tunis, the criminal chamber specializing in terrorism cases also pronounced judgments […]

South Africa Sends Elite Team to Probe Death of Ambassador Mthethwa

South Africa has dispatched a five-member elite investigative team to Paris following the sudden and controversial death of its ambassador to France, Nathi Mthethwa. The 58-year-old former cabinet minister was found dead last Tuesday (30 Sept) morning after falling from the 22nd floor of the Hyatt Regency Paris Étoile. Led by Major General Bongani Maqashalala, […]