Christopher Torchia

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South Africa: Park staff arrested for poaching

South Africa: Park staff arrested for poaching

Christopher Torchia · September 22, 2014 9:36 am

South African parliament hosts another ruckus

South African parliament hosts another ruckus

Christopher Torchia · September 18, 2014 2:59 pm

South Africa sends murder suspect to Botswana

South Africa sends murder suspect to Botswana

Christopher Torchia · September 16, 2014 2:41 pm

Judge in Pistorius trial faces criticism

Judge in Pistorius trial faces criticism

Christopher Torchia · September 16, 2014 8:52 am

In this Sunday, Sept. 7, 2014 handout photo supplied by the Wildlife Conservation Society, (WCS) WCS members inspect the scene where a poached elephant lays dead in the Niassa Reserve, Mozambique, after being shot dead by poachers with an AK-47. The recent arrests of six suspected poachers in the vast reserve is some rare good news in a country that has long been seen as lacking the will and resources to stem the slaughter of elephants and other species under threat. (AP Photo/Wildlife Coversation Society International-Alastair Nelson) MANDATORY CREDIT THIS IMAGE MAY ONLY BE USED FOR 14 DAYS FROM TIME OF TRANSMISSION: NO ARCHIVES: NO LICENSING.

Mozambique logs a rare victory against poachers

Christopher Torchia · September 14, 2014 2:45 pm

File: In this Friday, May 9, 2014 file photo Judge Thokozile Masipa, to right of door in red cape, and her advocates examine the bullet-riddled toilet door up close during expert forensics evidence being given at the Oscar Pistorius murder trial in in Pretoria, South Africa. Judge Masipa is expected to announce her verdict after summing up Thursday and Friday in Pistorius' murder trail after scrutinizing evidence given by 37 witnesses in a court transcript running to thousands of pages in a drama that has played out over six months. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, Pool, File)

Judge to give verdict in Pistorius trial

Christopher Torchia · September 9, 2014 4:11 pm

In this photo taken Friday, June 6, 2014 opposition leader of the Umbrela for Democratic Change (UDC) party, Gomolemo Motswaledi pauses, during the UDC election manifesto launch in Gaborone. His death on July 30, 2014, in a road accident, of Motswaleda, has highlighted brewing tension in Botswana, with the opposition alleging that Motswaledi may have been assassinated by pro-government agents. (AP Photo/Monirul Bhuiyan)

Death of opposition leader roils Botswana

Christopher Torchia · August 26, 2014 4:12 pm

SAfrican lawmakers protest presidential scandal

SAfrican lawmakers protest presidential scandal

Christopher Torchia · August 21, 2014 3:44 pm

South Africa: man dead after orange pelting

South Africa: man dead after orange pelting

Christopher Torchia · August 21, 2014 1:43 pm

A man cycles past a billboard featuring Sophie Ndaba, an actor who played the Queen Moroka character in "Generations," soap opera displayed on the street in Soweto, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. "Generations," a hugely popular soap opera in South Africa, first aired in 1993, a year before the nation's first all-race elections ended apartheid. Now the future of this television staple followed by millions is up in the air.(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

South Africa: Soap opera cast is fired

Christopher Torchia · August 20, 2014 6:51 pm

The remains of journalist Nat Nakasa, in a coffin draped in a South African flag, arrives in Durban, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014 where he will be reburied, South Africa's arts and culture ministry said. South Africa is repatriating the remains of Nakasa, a black anti-apartheid journalist, who died in the United States in 1965 and was buried there until his recent exhumation. (AP Photo)

South Africa repatriates journalist’s remains

Christopher Torchia · August 19, 2014 4:20 pm

Emergency service workers, on right, attempt to remove bodies of people who were killed when a structure collapsed on a housing building site, south of Johannesburg, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. A building under renovation on the site collapsed killing eight, officials said. Another two people were missing. (AP Photo)

South Africa: 8 killed in building collapse

Christopher Torchia · August 18, 2014 7:20 pm