Southern Africa: Animal Rights Group Criticize Ivory Trade Decision The decision by an international body to again allow some southern African countries to conduct once-off ivory sales has been attacked by an animal rights activist saying elephants are being threatened by poaching because of the breakdown in the legal and social order in Zimbabwe. Namibia: Union Wants Govt to Seize Mines THE Mineworkers Union of Namibia is not buying the explanation given by copper mining and smelting company Weatherly International for its decision to close all its copper mines in Namibia. South Africa: Pressure for Rates Cut Mounts on Central Bank CENTRAL banks around the world continued to slash interest rates yesterday with many thousands of financial-sector jobs on the line due to the deepening global economic turmoil. South Africa: Botswana Project to Power SA As Well CIC Energy has turned to development finance institutions, export credit agencies and banks for the financing of its Mmamabula energy project in Botswana, the company said yesterday. Nigeria: Group Hopeful for Justice in Chevron Protest Trial The Ilaje people are optimistic that Chevron Nigeria limited (CNL) will be brought to book for instigating the murder of Ilaja youths who were on a peaceful protest on Parabe platform, Ondo State, in 1998, the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FOEN), said at the weekend. Nigeria: Huge Capital Flight Hits Economy THE global financial crisis has begun to take its toll on the Nigerian economy as corporate bodies are moving funds massively out of the country and from naira to dollar.
