Debris from same type of plane as MH370, U.S. official says
WASHINGTON — Debris washed up over the weekend in Mozambique has been tentatively identified by experts close to the investigation as a part from the same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a U.S. official said…
Activists celebrate World Rhino Day across the globe
Conservationists across the globe are marking World Rhino Day on Monday, a day focused on five species of rhino, including black, white and Sumatran rhinos.
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Can cross-border cooperation save the endangered rhino?
Only about 29,000 rhinos remain in the wild today -- 73 percent of those wild rhinos are in South Africa -- and most of those live in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Authorities are desperately trying to combat a dramatic…
International ad campaigns aim to reduce rhino horn demand
While park rangers are fighting the battle with poachers on the ground in South Africa, over the past few years ad campaigns by conservation groups have also been hitting airwaves and websites in consumer countries to discourage the consumption of…
As in the U.N. Development Program's last review in 2011, Norway reigns supreme and the United States made the top five, while the African nations of Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo came in last.
More than 400,000 babies born to HIV-positive mothers are infected with the virus each year. Risk of transmission can be reduced to less than 2 percent through prevention programs, raising hope that this type of transmission can be nearly eliminated…
Mozambique is one of the world's poorest countries, grappling with high rates of poverty, HIV and malnutrition. But this coastal nation is also one of sub-Saharan Africa's star performers, posting steady economic growth year after year. We explore this dichotomy…
MAPUTO | A few weeks ago at the U.N., I interviewed the Health Minister of Mozambique, Paolo Ivo Garrido. By the time I got to Maputo in October, Garrido had been dismissed as health minister in a cabinet reshuffling and…
MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE | Maputo's streets were buzzing with commercial activity Monday and its beaches packed over the weekend with families having picnics and friends sharing beers. But just last month, there was a very different scene here: riots over…
