• To new arrivals, “Dip 27” is no different from any other rural service centre in Madabe communal lands south of Plumtree in Zimbabwe.

  • Southern African nations are at it again. Journalist Nyasha Chingono reported in late May that those “hosting the largest elephant populations in the world made a fresh pitch... to be allowed to sell their $1bn ivory stockpiles”, purportedly to allocate it towards conservation. How they derive this figure is unclear, and the report doesn’t question its veracity.