Oil giant Shell suffered another major spillage at the weekend in the eastern division of the Niger Delta, 'The Guardian' reported on Tuesday. The leak, at Ogbodu village in the Ikwerre Council area, spread through the Choba River to the Calabar Creek because of the fast flow of the river, the Lagos-based newspaper said. Dead fish could be seen floating on the surface of the water, it added.

Chiefdoms in southern and eastern Sierra Leone will soon receive tens of thousands of dollars as their share of proceeds from the sale of diamonds mined in their region, Mineral Resources Minister Mohammed Deen told IRIN on Thursday.

The meeting of COP-6 of the UNFCCC, scheduled to be held in Bonn, Germany during the last two weeks of July of this year, will address a conflict that has pitted the United States against most if not all the countries of the world and threatens to upset the international effort to curb global warming.

About a year ago both the World Bank and the European Investment Bank approved a loan for the controversial Chad- Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project. A brand new report that outlines all commitments made and not lived up to by the banks, the governments and the oil companies. The project has been selected as one of FoEI's (Friends of the Earth International) 'showcases' to illustrate the call for a phase out of public financing for oil, mining and gas projects.

Mzee is 42, headstrong and notorious for crashing through the electrified fence that surrounds a sprawling ranch in north central Kenya. On Thursday, the 4.2-ton bull elephant stumbled out of a truck, shook off his stupor and flapped his ears, ambling free in his new, fenceless home following the most intensive elephant relocation effort to date in eastern Africa.