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      'Everything Is Destroyed': 90% of Mozambique Port City Wrecked by Tropical Cyclone Idai

      'Everything Is Destroyed': 90% of Mozambique Port City Wrecked by Tropical Cyclone Idai

      "The people who've done the least to change the climate suffer the most."

      Jessica Corbett
      Mar 18, 2019

      Hundreds of people were killed and many more remain missing after a tropical cyclone destroyed 90 percent of the port city of Beira, Mozambique, before moving on to Malawi and Zimbabwe--eliciting fresh demands for bolder efforts to battle the climate crisis that is making extreme weather more common and devastating.

      An initial assessment from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Monday found that 90 percent of the city and the surrounding area "is completely destroyed" after experiencing a direct hit from Cyclone Idai last Thursday.

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      Doctors Strike in Zimbabwe as Government Imposes Austerity to Attract More Chinese Investment

      Doctors Strike in Zimbabwe as Government Imposes Austerity to Attract More Chinese Investment

      In the post-Mugabe era, the new regime aims to show it is worthy of a bigger piece of the Chinese pie

      Craig Dube
      Jan 03, 2019

      Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has had to cut his holiday vacation short to try to resolve an escalating strike among doctors at public hospitals over low pay and medical supply shortages. Now entering its second month, the strike comes as the government pursues a short-sighted effort to improve its reputation among international creditors by slashing public spending.

      After 37 years of former President Robert Mugabe's iron fist rule, Zimbabwe's government is now rolling out the welcome mat for foreign investors -- particularly for China. While President Trump has his "Make America Great Again" slogan, Mnangagwa, who became president of this southern African country in 2017, is using the theme "Zimbabwe is open for business."

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      After Calling Practice 'A Horror Show,' Trump Reverses Ban on Animal Trophy Imports

      After Calling Practice 'A Horror Show,' Trump Reverses Ban on Animal Trophy Imports

      Breaking earlier promise, administration now says slaughtered elephants and other exotic animals will be allowed into U.S. on "case-by-case" basis

      Julia Conley
      Mar 06, 2018

      Animal rights advocates denounced the Trump administration's reversal of a ban on animal trophy imports, announced in a memo issued last week, and the secrecy with which President Donald Trump's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) will now allow some Americans to import endangered species they have killed in African countries.

      The agency said it would begin issuing permits "to import a sport-hunted trophy on a case-by-case basis," effective immediately, but did not share what guidelines it would follow in making those decisions.

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