here is your latest african news zimbabwe victoria falls wild heritage status hangs in balance
there are fears that the victoria falls could be delisted as a world heritage site following
massive construction activities on either side of the zambezi river which might have
tampered with some animal corridors and natural signs these have been carried out on either
sides of the zambezi river between zambia and zimbabwe since the united nations educational
scientific and culture organization unesco added victoria falls to the list in 1989.
this was based on its unique germaphological formation and remarkable natural beauty
unesco is assessing if the destination still qualifies as a wild heritage site
as the custodian of this site unesco recently sent a monitoring team to assess the current
state of victoria falls and its environs the un body has the mandate to carry periodic assessments
tanyara zua mundoga deputy director of zimbabwe environment climate and natural resources says
there is need to safeguard the natural habitat so as to keep victoria falls in its pristine state
victoria falls falling water blanket is about 1.7 kilometers wide and falls 108 meters down
the gorge and is classified as the largest waterfall in the world the waterfall is within
victoria falls national park which together with the victoria falls bridge attracts a significant
number of tourists annually it is one of the five world heritage sites in zimbabwe
south sudan south sudan opposition withdrawals from peace body
south sudan's main opposition party has said that they are withdrawing from a body overseeing the
young nation's lumbering peace process dealing a fresh blow to its elusive quest for stability
the sudan people's liberation movement in opposition led by vice president rick machar
pulled out of the peace monitoring mechanism to protest continued unprovoked attacks
of its bases by its peace partner the withdrawal adds to features between factions loyal to machar
and president salvakir that have dragged out the implementation of a fragile 2018 peace agreement
that ended fighting between the two men in 2013 the country was engulfed in a devastating
five-year civil conflict between forces loyal to kir and machar which claimed thousands of
lives and forced millions of people to flee their homes the two men created a unity government two
years ago consolidating a peace party reached in 2018 that ended the violence bukit nafaso
sankara trial resumes after three week hires the child for the october 1987 assassination of the
former book in obey president sankara and his colleagues has resumed after the constitutional
council rejected a defense position the lawyer assisting the former medical officer charged with
forging sankara's death certificate pleaded for acquittal while two other defendants lawyers also
pleaded for their clients to be acquitted citing the 34-year time lapse between the child and the
acts alleged against their cues they put forward a statute of limitations and the lack of witnesses
the sankara trial was suspended in early march after the defense petitioned the constitutional
council citing the council's approval of the military takeover by conor damia the lawyers
challenged the charges of crime against national security asking for them to be dropped on the
basis of an exception of unconstitutionality however the council rejected their petition
nigeria nigeria to witness agricultural boom with dangotes 2.5 billion fertilizer plant
president muhammadu buhari has commissioned a new 3 million metric tons capacity per annum
state-of-the-art dangote fertilizer urea plant with an emphatic assurance that the project would
give a huge boost to nigeria's agricultural sector with the revitalization being a focal point of his
administration's economic policy the new plant which he commissioned in the presence of some 18
governors ministers campaigns of industries as well as prominent traditional rulers
is located in ibadu leki lagos free trade zone within the periphery of the dangote refinery
president buhari said the coming on stream of the plant would create huge opportunities in
the areas of employment trade warehousing transport and logistics and greatly create
wealth drastically reducing poverty and securing the future of the nation
dangote stated that the fertilizer plant is rolling out with innovation that would transform
the agricultural sector in the form of extension services for small and medium-skilled farmers
it has set up a well-equipped fertilizer soil testing laboratory to enable it to
analyze and identify soil deficiency and the appropriate fertilizer blend
genie guinea's national conference opens in conocry meetings aimed at promoting reconciliation
opened in conocry six months after a military coup upset guinea's constitutional order
dubbed the national conference the meetings to be held over several weeks will bring together
political parties youth groups women's organizations traditional leaders and
the civil society to discuss what military leader colonel mamadi dumbaya has called as
a new institutional framework for the country the country's army leaders have not spelt out
a schedule for a return to civilian rule despite pressure from west africa's regional bloc ecowas
it is not clear what the authorities will do with the recommendations of the meetings in 2016 guinea
held a similar event nigeria nigerian orgoni nine widows lose case against shell in netherlands
a dutch court has rejected a case brought by four nigerian widows against oil giant shell
over their husbands execution by the military regime that choose their country in the 1990s
they accused shell of involvement in the arrest detention prosecution and eventual execution of
their husband who opposed the group's exploitation of oil resources in ogoni south and nigeria but
the dutch court ruled that their position was based on interpretation and supposition
and that they had no evidence to back their accusations the widow's complaint alleged that
shell had been involved in corrupting witnesses in the trial of the orgonine who in november
1995 were convicted by a military tribunal for involvement in the murder of four organi leaders
witnesses had testified to the court that they had signed a pre-prepared statement
and had been coached to incriminate the defendants in return for the promise of payments and jobs
they said they had been told that the money they received came from shelf all the defendants
insisted they were innocent of the charges against them and right organization including amnesty
have argued that their trial was a sham thanks for watching please subscribe follow share and
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