大象传媒

A high-level conference was held in Botswana on the future of Southern African elephants, which urged for the re-opening of trade in ivory. Botswana, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe asked the international regulating body CITES to lift a ban, arguing that the sale of their ivory can generate large amounts of money for conservation. The president of Botswana Mokgweetsi Masisi welcomed three of his regional counterparts to the summit with a gift of elephant-foot stools, saying the issue of human-elephant conflict required action.

We take the pulse of South Africans voters who prepare to head to the polls on 8th May. There's a record 26 million people who are eligible to vote, so one can imagine people are gearing up... or are they? Is there apathy or are people pumped up?

We speak to Ghanaian artist Sarah Owusu, who discovered her artistic skills while overcoming Bells Palsy, a health condition leading to the paralysis of the muscles of the face. After waking up one morning with a side of her face paralysed one of her first reactions was to grab a brush and start painting. Now healed, she devotes her artistic vein to representing African and Black beauty in her works.