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06Dec/19

New EIA Report, Mukula Cartel

December 6, 2019EnvironmentBlack markets, China, City: Washington, Company: Forest Campaigns, Company: Norske Skogsind, Company: ZAMBIA FORESTRY, Contact Details, Contacts Lindsay Moran, Country: China, Country: United States, Country: Zambia, Director, Edgar Lungu, EIA, Environment, Environmental crime, Environmental Investigation Agency, Extinction, Family Relation, Forest Industries Corporation Limited, Forestry, Given Lubinda, Government, Government of Zambia, Head of Communications, Illegal logging, illicit timber networks, illicit trafficking networks, influential timber trafficking network, [email protected], Jean Kapata, justice minister, Lindsay Moran, Lisa Handy, Logging, Mike Mukula, Minister, Natural environment, Nature, Nkula, Nkula Kafula Musungu II, Patriotic Front, Person Career, president, President of Zambia, public services, Quotation, Region: Central Africa, Region: Southern Africa, rosewood trafficking networks, Tasila Lungu, United States, Washington, Wildlife smuggling, Wildlife trade, Zambiasmbale

WASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Mukula Cartel, exposes how associates connected to Zambian President Edgar Lungu, including his daughter Tasila Lungu, onetime resident of the United States of America, are reportedly involved in the plunder of valuable, increasingly scarce, mukula rosewood trees; and hence the destruction of Zambia’s vulnerable forests. The investigation shows that despite public pledges to end the illegal mukula trade, several politicians are repeatedly named as key actors in an influential timber trafficking network that bypasses existing national bans on mukula harvest and export.
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26Apr/15

U.S. returns smuggled artifacts to Egypt

April 26, 2015WorldAfrica, Antiquities, Antiquities Law of the State of Israel, Arab world, Australia, Cairo, Continents, Eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, France, Geography of Africa, Mamdouh al-Damaty, Minister, Ministry of Antiquities, national geographic society, New York, North Africa, Politics, Supreme Council of Antiquities, United States, Western Asiasmbale

Egypt receives a collection of 123 ancient Egyptian antiquities that were smuggled to the United States.

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01Mar/15

World’s largest radio telescope project mark progress

March 1, 2015SpaceASTRON, Astronomical imaging, Astronomy, Australia, China, China Central Television, Cyril Ramaphosa, European Southern Observatory, Huang Wei, Minister, Naledi, Naledi Pandor, Observational astronomy, Pandor, Radio astronomy, Radio telescope, Radio telescopes, S Africa-Radio Telescope China Central Television, Science, Science and technology in South Africa, SKA, South Africa, Square Kilometre Array, Technology/Internet, Telescopessmbale

S Africa-Radio Telescope

China Central Television (CCTV) – Preliminary work on the world’s largest radio telescope project has made a major progress, with the completion of an array of radio telescopes in Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
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