Côte d’Ivoire will impose a tax of 19 per cent on gold mine profits in an attempt to benefit from soaring world prices

Plantations around the Sabie area in South Africa's Mpumalanga province have been ravaged by five forest fires in the past week

A UN-backed forest-monitoring initiative, valued at approximately US$7.3mn, will see 10 central African countries unite in the interest of protecting the region’s forests