Mining company Kenmare Resources saw its share price rise by almost 8% yesterday on the back of a strong trading performance in the first quarter, traditionally the Dublin firm’s lowest production point of the year.

Large seizures of elephant tusks have made this year the worst on record since ivory sales were banned in 1989, with recent estimates suggesting as many as 3,000 elephants were killed by poachers, experts said today.

KENMARE Resources has said a four-year-old girl missing since October 8 was now presumed dead after a flood of water, sand and clay from its titanium mine in northern Mozambique hit her village.

KENMARE Resources has issued a taking-over certificate for Phase 2 of the Moma Titanium Minerals Mine in northern Mozambique to the contractor building the project.

A TROPICAL cyclone battering southern Mozambique has killed 11 people and severed coastal roads in the storm-weary African country, officials said yesterday.