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  • Global wildlife agency hails Sino-U.S. deal to save elephants

    CHINA, 2015/09/29 A world wildlife conservation organization on Monday lauded agreement reached between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama committing to take swift action to protect elephants. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) CEO Azzedine Downes said the agreement reached on Friday would play a key role in ending the poaching crisis across the globe. "President Xi has delivered a tremendous victory in the battle to save elephants. China has slammed the door in the face of all those who are profiting from the slaughter of elephants," Downes said in a statement released in Nairobi.

  • Coordinator of East African Tourism Platform (EATP) steps down

    AFRICA, 2015/03/28 Three years ago the East African Tourism Platform (EATP) was launched across the East African Community, amid some serious fanfare for that matter, and it was the first time that a regional tourism apex body was put into place, able to lobby at the East African Community (EAC) level and also at the level of national governments. It was also the first time many heard and then met Waturi Wa Matu, who was to become the Coordinator at the EATP office which was based in Nairobi and attached to the Kenya Tourism Federation offices. Waturi did not remain a stranger and soon her name was known in all tourism forums across the region, with the words “here, there, and everywhere” coming to mind as she jetted from event to event, from city to city, and from country to country to stand by the national tourism associations and support them in their quest to be heard, listened to, taken more seriously, and most important, promoting the common policies agreed on at the EATP level.
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