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White Gold – China’s Love Of Ivory Is Helping To Fuel An Illicit Global Trade

AMA — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 23:01:48 +0000

The supply chain is complicated and often hard to trace, but it begins in the bush in Africa, where poachers kill an estimated 30,000 elephants each year. Tusks taken from slaughtered animals are then shipped through a complex web of middlemen before reaching Chinese buyers. A key conduit is the city of Hong Kong, where [...]

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Ivory Coast Move Up Fifa Rankings

David Folami — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:47:43 +0000

Ivory Coast have leapt up the latest Fifa world rankings after winning the Africa Cup of Nations. . Equatorial Guinea, hosts of the Nations Cup which ended on Sunday, soared into the top 50 for the first time. . The National Lighting leapt 69 places and are joint 49th with Congo after reaching the semi-finals, [...]

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Yaya Toure Prefers Nation Over Club Glory

David Folami — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 22:16:21 +0000

Yaya Toure says he will choose glory for his country over his club any day. . The four-time Africa Player of the Year has now won an elusive piece of silverware which had been an albatross around his neck for years – the Africa Cup of Nations trophy. . Ivory Coast’s Afcon win on Sunday [...]

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Avram Grant Hints At Winning Afcon 2017

David Folami — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:37:31 +0000

Avram Grant has hinted that he will deliver the Africa Cup of Nations for his employers in 2017 after missing out on Sunday. . His team dramatically lost in a 9-8 shootout to Cote d’Ivoire’s Elephants in Equatorial Guinea after largely not being expected to get that far. Speaking after the squad landed in Ghana, [...]

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