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Sniffer dogs bust heroin ring
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- 05 March 2012
Dogs trained in South Africa with the Mechem Explosives and Drug Detection System led authorities in Benin to the uncovering of a heroin-smuggling ring. The plucky canines are also used to combat poaching.
• Lean times for drug traffickers
Jewellery to disarm Africa
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- 05 March 2012
An international project has pledged its support to bring an end to the destruction caused by illegal assault rifles in Africa's war zones – and they are using jewellery made from AK-47 rifle parts to achieve this.
• Bright future for Rwanda’s women
New Kenyan home for black rhinos
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- 17 February 2012
The World Wide Fund for Nature, in partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Services, has completed the second, and final phase of its project to transport 21 black rhinos from two privately owned ranches to Ruma National Park, a newly proclaimed rhino sanctuary.
• EWT making tracks in conservation
New multi-million AU headquarters unveiled
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- 01 February 2012
The new US$200m headquarters of the African Union were unveiled at the 18th African Union summit, which took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2012.
• UN, AU strive for peace in Africa
Putting malaria to sleep, for good
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- 27 January 2012
In East and West African communities, the NightWatch communications campaign reminds people, via radio, television and text messages, to get under their mosquito nets as part of the fight against malaria.
• Top WEF award for SA singer
Transforming waste to wealth
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- 25 January 2012
Lorna Rutto from Kenya has been named the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards 2011 laureate for sub-Saharan Africa for her creative business idea of making fence posts from plastic waste.
● Portable plant makes fuel from waste
Tanzania's 'butterfly effect'
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- 19 January 2012
When one thinks of farming, butterflies are not the first commodity that comes to mind. But in Tanzania, this unlikely crop is cultivated to help conserve threatened forests and provide an alternative income to more than 250 farmers.
• First World Forestry Congress for SA
