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...July, Kenya's President, Daniel arap Moi, set ablaze a twelve-ton mountain of illicit ivory -- 3,000 tusks worth $3 million. To those familiar with the plundering of Kenya's herds and the corruption in its wildlife department, the fire was a kind of exorcism. "If we go wrong here, hope will be lost in many parts of this continent," says Richard Leakey, who became head of the department in April. "If we go right here, there is a chance for things to happen elsewhere much more rapidly than any of us would have dared to believe...
President Daniel arap Moi ignited the 20-ft. tower of ivory, which had been erected in a clearing overlooking the Athi Plains in Nairobi's game park. The pyre was a memorial to the hundreds of thousands of elephants slaughtered in Africa by poachers over the past ten years, and a symbol of Kenya's avowed resolve to end poaching and the global ivory trade that threatens the elephant with extinction. In just the past decade the population of Kenya's herd has plummeted from 65,000 to about 17,000. Had Kenya sold the store of tusks, many hacked...
After poachers killed three rangers last August, Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi issued a shoot-on-sight policy. But wildlife experts are concerned that as long as trade in ivory and rhino horn continues, the government is destined to lose its battle to stop the butchery...
...nations were moving close to war last week when Presidents Daniel arap Moi of Kenya and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda met at the Kenyan border town of Malaba. By the time the feuding leaders rose two hours later, the tensions were largely resolved. Said an elated Museveni:"All the problems have been ended...
...slums of the city of Recife, irrigation systems in India and the construction of electrical generating plants in Thailand. Occasionally the bank comes a cropper. One dud project: the $110 million Bura irrigation scheme in Kenya, in which the World Bank participated and which the country's President, Daniel arap Moi, last January denounced as "a failure, a disgrace and the height of mismanagement." But usually the bank's efforts lead to solid accomplishments. A dramatic case is a twelve-year, $162 million effort to control the black fly in West Africa. That has saved about 3.5 million children from...