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Man narrowly escapes death after being trampled by elephants in Meru
By Citizen Reporter,
1500, July 14, 2019 (EAT)
By Moses Mwendwa A 43-year-old man narrowly escaped death on Saturday after he was attacked by three elephants in Ndunyuruma village, Kithima Sub-l...
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JKUAT don to become first Kenyan ref to officiate at Cup of Nations
By Isaac Swila,
1639, July 1, 2019 (EAT)
Dr. Peter Waweru, a lecturer at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology is set to become the first Kenyan centre referee to officia...
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Zimbabwe pushing to sell its $600 million ivory stock
By VOA,
827, June 27, 2019 (EAT)
Zimbabwe hosted the first United Nations and Africa Union summit on wildlife. The country is seeking permission to sell its $600 million stock of elep...
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More than 500 endangered vultures die after eating poisoned elephant carcasses
By CNN,
951, June 25, 2019 (EAT)
More than 500 endangered vultures died after eating three dead elephants whose carcasses were poisoned by poachers, the Botswana government said in a ...
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Ugandan critics oppose Nile river power plant plan
By Reuters,
1752, June 13, 2019 (EAT)
A plan by South Africa’s Bonang Power and Energy to develop a 360 megawatt (MW) power plant on Uganda’s Nile River has met resistance from critics...
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Man killed by elephants and then eaten by hyenas in Narok
By Reuben Motochi,
2043, June 10, 2019 (EAT)
A 55-year-old man was on Monday morning trampled to death by elephants and thereafter his body eaten by hyenas at Olaragon village in Narok West, Naro...
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Botswana lifts ban on big game hunting
By Reuters,
1936, May 23, 2019 (EAT)
Botswana, home to almost a third of Africa’s elephants, lifted a ban on big game hunting on Wednesday, citing growing conflict between humans and wi...
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Legacy of lunacy haunts old Kenya railway. Will China’s Ksh.364B line be different?
By CNN,
1239, May 21, 2019 (EAT)
In 1903, British colonial administrator Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot made a bold statement: "It is not uncommon for a country to create a rai...
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Harry and Meghan, Africa doesn’t want you
By CNN,
901, April 25, 2019 (EAT)
Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, may be considering a move to Africa sometime after the birth of their child. Just as with thei...
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Poll workers trek to India’s most remote voters
By VOA,
1924, April 14, 2019 (EAT)
The figures involved in India’s general election are staggering: 900 million voters, 83 million first-time voters, 11 million poll workers, nearly 4...
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Elephants terrorise Samburu residents as drought bites
By Josphister Lengarpatei,
1149, April 10, 2019 (EAT)
Residents in Maralal town Samburu County are living in fear after elephants trespassed into their homes, destroyed crops and property. Residents ha...
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Scales from world’s most trafficked mammal disguised as ‘frozen beef’ from Nigeria
By CNN,
1039, April 9, 2019 (EAT)
Authorities in Singapore have seized one of the largest ever shipments of pangolin scales en route to Vietnam, worth an estimated $38.7million (Ksh.3....
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Cameroon busts ivory, pangolin traffickers
By VOA,
1057, March 21, 2019 (EAT)
Police in Cameroon have arrested four wildlife traffickers caught with huge quantities of elephant tusks and scales from pangolins. The traffickers, s...
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Kenya hailed for its strong stand against trade in ivory
By PSCU,
1907, March 16, 2019 (EAT)
Kenya’s strong stand against trade in ivory is drawing global attention. Top officials of the global Elephant Protection Initiative (EPI) on Thur...
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Botswana has ‘significant elephant-poaching problem,’ conservation group says
By CNN,
1103, March 5, 2019 (EAT)
Botswana, long considered a safe haven for elephants in Africa, has "a significant elephant-poaching problem," according to a conservationist group th...
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Congo’s former president awarded oil block in UNESCO heritage site
By Reuters,
1031, February 28, 2019 (EAT)
Former Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila in December awarded an oil drilling license that overlaps a wildlife-rich UNESCO world her...
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Tanzanian court sentences Chinese ‘Ivory Queen’ to 15 years for smuggling
By Reuters,
1947, February 19, 2019 (EAT)
A Tanzanian court sentenced a prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the “Ivory Queen” to 15 years in prison on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks of...
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Uganda seizes ivory smuggled in timbers
By VOA,
1646, February 1, 2019 (EAT)
Ugandan authorities have confiscated roughly 750 pieces of ivory and thousands of pangolin scales trucked into the East African country from northern ...
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Hong Kong customs seize record haul of pangolin scales bound for Vietnam
By Reuters,
1143, February 1, 2019 (EAT)
Hong Kong customs busted a massive endangered species smuggling operation from Africa, seizing a record quantity of pangolin scales along with more th...
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Motorists warned against fare hike, drunk driving as NTSA checks
By Citizen Team,
1517, December 28, 2018 (EAT)
The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has warned operators against hiking fares and using private vehicles to ferry travellers. In an ...
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