Search results for ‘horn of africa’
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London Horniman museum to hand back stolen Benin bronzes to Nigeria
Today marks a new chapter in the history of the Benin bronzes – cultural artefacts looted from West Africa by British soldiers in 1897.
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Rhino horns dosed with toxins to battle poachers
South African officials “infuse” rhino horns with toxins in a campaign to deter poaching. The toxin is harmless to the animal but makes any human consumer of the horn ill.
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‘Stop talking and act now’ on Africa drought
As ministers meet in Rome to discuss how to get aid to the drought-hit Horn of Africa region, an aid worker in Somalia tells Channel 4 News they should “stop talking and act now” or children will die.
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Government: more money for East Africa drought sufferers
A £52.25m emergency aid package is being put together to help millions of starving people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya hit by Africa’s worst drought in 50 years.
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Somalis flee famine as drought grips east Africa
The mass exodus of starving Somali refugees is becoming an unbearable crisis as aid agencies launch an emergency appeal to help millions facing the worst east African drought in decades.
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Pleas for aid as Africa drought sparks crisis
Ten million people across the Horn of Africa are being affected by the worst drought in 60 years. At the world’s largest refugee camp, aid agencies tell Channel 4 News people are facing desperation.
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East African drought ‘worst in 60 years’
A drought developing across the Horn of Africa is now the worst in 60 years – affecting 10 million people, according to the United Nations.
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Africa chimp smuggling: conservationists call for action
Conservationists are calling for worldwide action to stop the growing trade in endangered primates being smuggled out of Africa by criminal gangs alongside drugs and arms, writes Asha Tanna.
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'Africa has already won the World Cup'
On his return from Johannesburg, Channel 4 News foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller blogs that South Africa’s World Cup is a recognition of what the African continent has brought to football.
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Very loud: England’s first game on African soil
The atmosphere at England’s first game in South Africa ahead of Saturday’s World Cup clash against the US was very different to that of the Premier League, says Keme Nzerem.
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Somali pirates: Highest number of attacks in over a decade (Dubbed)
Somali pirates appear to be making a comeback. Attacks around the Horn of Africa have risen sharply – adding to the risks posed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeting ships in the Red Sea.
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US hunter-killer drones ‘flying from Seychelles’
America’s covert war on terror is expanding across the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, with the building of secret drone airbases from Ethiopia to the Seychelles.
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Just 27 per cent of drought aid money going to Somalia
The Disasters Emergency Committee tells Channel 4 News that just over a quarter of money it has raised towards the Horn of Africa Appeal is going to Somalia, the epicentre of the drought crisis.
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Why Somalia's refugees are not being fed at home
Is America denying food aid to starving Somalis as part of a strategy to beat the al-Shabaab militants of the Horn of Africa? Jonathan Rugman reports on the agonised food politics of Somalia.
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Somalia on edge of famine as country suffers worst drought in 40 years
Two climate emergencies – one from a deadly shortage of water; one from too much, killing and uprooting people on a vast scale.
