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Film: Nation of Destruction - About Chinese Fishmeal Factories in the Gambia
Nation of Destruction is mini documentary made through the eyes of the locals. The people in Kartong, Sanyang and Gunjur are facing a massive environmental disaster since Chinese owned fishmeal factories started operating along Gambia's beaches. Green World Warrior...
China removes Pangolin scales from medicine list
Campaigners hope the move will help end global trade in the scaly anteater, identified as a possible host for Covid-19. Pangolin scales have been removed from an official 2020 listing of ingredients approved for use in traditional Chinese medicine in a move lauded by...
Coronavirus: how China plans to restore its image in Africa
China, the birthplace of the coronavirus pandemic, has been sending medical supplies across the continent. Will these efforts be enough to divert attention away from the country’s questionable management of the crisis and the discrimination African nationals have...
China’s State Insurers Have Stopped Covering Pangolin Medicines
Users will no longer be reimbursed by state insurance schemes, but more action is needed to save African pangolins, says report The dropping by China’s state insurers of medicines derived from pangolin scales could help save threatened populations in Africa. The move...
How China’s Taking Over Africa, And Why the World Should Be VERY Worried
On June 5, 1873, in a letter to The Times, Sir Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin and a distinguished African explorer in his own right, outlined a daring (if by today's standards utterly offensive) new method to 'tame' and colonise what was then known as...
How Chinese Trawlers Can Not Be Removed From Surinamese waters despite violations
Chinese vessels fishing illegally on west African coast The judge has decided that the Chinese trawlers, or fishing vessels, may not be removed from Surinamese waters awaiting a decision by the judge hearing the application for interim relief. Melvin Bouva,...
China Conquers Africa Completely by the End of 2019
The devil is in the detail as China’s generosity towards African countries has peaked in recent years coinciding with the great economic vision and strides by the continent as a single body in the face of threats and sanctions from long-time allies, the United States...
Export of Fish Meal from Africa a Threat to Millions in Africa, say Greenpeace
African workers are working in terrible conditions in a fish meal factory in Mauritania DAKAR, June 20 — The exporting of tonnes of fish oil and fish meal from Africa to China and Europe poses a serious danger to the diets of millions of Africans, the Greenpeace...
Gambia: Golden Lead Factory is poisoning Bolong Fenyo Wildlife Reserve AGAIN!
Bolong Fenyo Wildlife reserve, after the chinese came and installed a pipeline for their waste water While member states of UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD) are celebrating biodiversity day- under the theme: “our biodiversity, our food, our health”! The...
Kenya: Donkey’s Skinned Alive - Activists Urge to Halt Skin Sales to China
donkeys skinnned alive in kenya
How Namibia Is Robbing Itself: 10.000 Logs Exported to China losing 24 million
A new report exposes the government's failure to curb the controversial timber trade, with revelations that 10 000 blocks of wood from northern Namibia have been exported to China and Vietnam since November 2018. Agriculture and environment ministries officials...
Namibia: Chinese Pensioner Fined over Possession Rhino Horn
AN ELDERLY Chinese man who admitted that he had illegal wildlife products, including a rhinoceros horn, and a firearm in his possession at the start of last year was sentenced to pay fines totalling N$156 000 by the Windhoek Regional Court this week. Magistrate Alexis...
Gambia: Millions Of Dead Fish Wash Up Paradise Beach
Paradise Beach in Sanyang (The Gambia) Photo: A. Manjang Sanyang, a coastal village in The Gambia has been struck by another environmental disaster as millions of dead fish wash up 'Paradise beach'. Local environmentalist shot this footage the 9th of may. Since...
GHANA: Chinese Woman busted for attempting to smuggle Rosewood
A Chinese woman, Helena Huang is in the grips of the Police in Tamale for allegedly attempting to smuggle four containers of Rosewood. The Police say they intercepted two trucks in Tamale loaded with two containers of rosewood belonging to the Chinese national....
Argentina sinks Chinese fishing boat Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010
This image published on the coastguard website showed the confrontation between the two vessels Argentina's coastguard chased and sank a Chinese vessel that it says was fishing illegally in Argentine waters on Monday. In a statement, the coastguard said one of its...
Fishmeal factories in the Gambia
This is a mini documentary about the Chinese invasion of fishmeal factories in the Gambia seen through the eyes of the locals.
