Underpaid, disgruntled rangers reportedly are killing elephants in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. At least 62 pachyderms have died from cyanide poisoning in Zimbabwe in the past month.
Morgan Winsor
Oct 28, 2015
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe joins a list that includes Cuba's former President Fidel Castro as the winner of the annual Confucius Prize, a Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize.
Lydia Tomkiw
Oct 22, 2015
Zanele Moyo, daughter of Zimbabwe's Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo, was a student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She was found dead in her apartment Saturday.
Morgan Winsor
Oct 18, 2015
Walter Palmer, who hunted and killed the lion, a tourist attraction in Zimbabwe, will not be extradited and charged by Zimbabwe.
Tim Marcin
Oct 12, 2015
North American’s largest hardwood floor seller agrees to plead guilty and pay a fine over importing Russian wood harvested illegally.
Angelo Young
Oct 07, 2015
Only six of the dead elephants had their ivory tusks cut off. In all cases, suspected poachers spiked food with cyanide to bait the pachyderms.
Morgan Winsor
Oct 07, 2015
Anti-gay rhetoric has been essential in the 91-year-old leader's effort to hold on to power in Zimbabwe.
Sarah Berger
Sep 28, 2015
The 91-year-old Zimbabwean leader was expected to read the correct speech during the special session of parliament Wednesday.
Morgan Winsor
Sep 16, 2015
Zimbabwe's parliament cut live broadcasting before President Robert Mugabe began his speech Tuesday after threats from the main opposition party to disrupt the event.
Morgan Winsor
Sep 15, 2015
Uranium can be used for civilian power production and scientific purposes, but is also a key ingredient in nuclear weapons.
Reuters
Sep 12, 2015
The American dentist who was widely condemned for hunting down a protected lion in Zimbabwe says he did not know of the animal's identity or its importance.
Suman Varandani
Sep 07, 2015
"Just ask yourself why God continues giving a 91-year-old strength to lead," Grace Mugabe said of her husband, the country's president since 1980.
Morgan Winsor
Aug 17, 2015
A childhood pal of Walter Palmer, who killed Cecil the lion, describes the big-game hunting dentist as someone who would help anyone in need.
Adam Lidgett
Aug 14, 2015
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe accused the U.K. government of racism, sadism and insensitivity for reportedly displaying the skulls in the renowned British History Museum.
Morgan Winsor
Aug 13, 2015
Photos show a massive tiger shark lying on a commercial fishing boat off New South Wales.
Sneha Shankar
Aug 12, 2015
The ban has been lifted across most of the area surrounding Hwange National Park, except the farmland where Cecil the lion was killed.
Kukil Bora
Aug 11, 2015
Richard Burdon, a New Zealand gamekeeper, said he was looking forward to hosting Sabrina Corgatelli.
Vishakha Sonawane
Aug 05, 2015
A 115-year-old U.S. law aimed at preventing unlawful animal trafficking may be difficult to enforce in the case of an American hunter who killed a celebrated Zimbabwean lion.
Reuters
Aug 04, 2015
The move comes after a popular lion named Cecil was illegally killed by a Minnesota-based dentist Walter James Palmer in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park.
Sneha Shankar
Aug 04, 2015
Wildlife authorities in Zimbabwe accused a second American of illegally killing a lion amid its legal pursuit of the hunter who slew Cecil the lion.
Maria Gallucci
Aug 02, 2015
"He looks alive and well to me as far as I can tell," Brent Stapelkamp, field researcher for the Hwange Lion Research Project, said of Jericho.
Christopher Zara
Aug 01, 2015
Yelp reviewers say now-deleted criticisms of Walter Palmer’s clinic served a public good, but Yelp’s guidelines favor comments reflecting first-hand customer experiences.
Christopher Zara
Aug 01, 2015