THE UGANDA Revenue Authority has handed over 100 pieces of ivory and a leopard skin to the Uganda Wildlife Authority.

The Jigawa State government has approved N37million for the purchase of chemicals to fight quelea birds that recently invaded some local government areas of the state.

Three Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe security officers based at the Harare Interna-tional Airport allegedly assisted a Chinese man to smuggle 500kg of ivory to his homeland.

Rwanda is considering to temporarily lift a ban on export of row hides and skins, the Ministry of Trade and Industry has said.

NATIONAL Parks authorities, working with the Police Sub Aqua unit, yesterday recovered a man's body parts in three crocodiles at a dam in Mt Darwin.

Africa's three main regional blocs namely the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) and the East African Community (EAC) are making significant progress in harmonizing their projects to promote full regional integration.

LEADERS of Africa's largest regional trade bloc, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa), have been meeting at Victoria Falls since May 28, to prepare for the launch of a Customs Union (CU).

THE Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has made commendable progress over the last decade, seeing trade between members rise five-fold in that period, with more expansion expected once it moves to a customs union this weekend.

SA WAS prepared to set up trade barriers with Botswana, Lesotho Mozambique and Swaziland to stop a flood of cheap imports entering the country.

Global trade may shrink by more than 6% this year but could return to positive growth in 2010, according to World Bank chief economist Justin Lin.

At least ten people have been killed in heavy fighting between allied Hizbul Islam and Al- Shabab Mujahideen and Ahlu Sunna Walja'a Islamist fighters that has erupted in Wabho town in central Somalia, witnesses and officials told Shabelle radio on

Officials from the Gambian security forces, Thursday June 4th, 2009 gathered in Banjul to bid farewell to 96 officers from different units of the country's security forces who are on their way on a UN peace keeping mission in the

A woman sits holding a baby in a queue at a medical clinic in Mogadishu, the violence-hit capital of Somalia, where fighting between government troops and insurgents has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

Sporadic fighting between government soldiers and Islamist forces is continuing in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said on Friday.

The Force Commander of the United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region today visited the scene of recent deadly clashes between Government forces and a rebel militia group.

The Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) national four-year sponsorship initiative 'train' will stop at the Garden City, Kumasi, for its phase two official launch at the Prempeh Assembly Hall tomorrow.

The President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) Mr. BT Baba has typified one of Dr Kwame Nkrumah's words in the struggle for independence, cautioning the various national supporters groups to unite immediately.

UGANDA Olympic Committee UOC, will starting this year, reward well organised sports bodies with cash prizes.

World Environment and Botswana Clean Days are set to be commemorated together tomorrow at the Lobatse Stadium.

South Africa has joined the rest of the world in a call for action to combat climate change as it celebrates World Environment Day (WED).