The Africa Report

Zimbabwe’s bid to push to trade ivory at this year’s conference of parties fails

Addressing journalists at a post-cabinet briefing in early December in the capital Harare, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa says Zimbabwe proposed to remove the requirement that Zimbabwe’s ...
Reuters

Zimbabwe lobbies neighbours on ivory trade, will not burn stocks

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe is seeking support from its neighbours to be allowed to engage in international trade in ivory and will not burn its 70 tonnes of ivory stocks as Kenya did last month, the ...
Naija Gist - Latest

Zimbabwe wants ivory ban lifted so it can sell $600-mln stockpile

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened a UN wildlife summit on Monday with a call to lift the global ivory trade ban so that the country can sell $600 million of stockpiled tusks. Mnangagwa said ...
Naija Gist - Latest

Zimbabwe demands right to sell $300 mn of ivory to fund game reserves

Zimbabwe has demanded the right to sell its stockpile of ivory to raise money for conservation, wildlife authorities said Tuesday, joining other southern African nations in calling for the global ban ...
Post-Bulletin

Zimbabwe sells stockpiled ivory to raise cash

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Zimbabwe’s sale of almost 4 tons of ivory Monday raised $450,000 for conservation in a country whose economic crisis has left authorities battling to maintain vast ...