The owner of a huge South African rhino conservation farm, the world’s largest, indicated Monday it would be sold at auction in April because he could no longer afford to breed the endangered animals, reports say. “Breeding rhinos is an expensive game,” John Hume, Platinum’s 81-year-old founder, told AFP, adding that he had been breeding […]
Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, chairman of the Sovereign Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese army, Tuesday called for the withdrawal of the UN mission in Darfur. This is the latest in a series of statements by the Sudanese authorities demanding the departure of UNAMID. UNAMID, deployed since 2007, comprises more than 6,500 men, peacekeepers […]
Excessive speed of 158 km/h was to blame for the train derailment in Bouknadel, a town near Rabat, which left seven people dead and 125 others injured on October 16, the general prosecutor’s office at Salé first instance court said. The driver was arrested and will be tried on charges of involuntary homicide, the prosecutor […]
