Al-Shabaab-linked sugar smugglers still in business

The political battle over Ugandan sugar deals continued yesterday, with Deputy President William Ruto accusing Cord leader Raila Odinga of owing the ailing Mumias Sugar Company millions of shillings.

A soldier was killed and police officers were seriously injured as security forces mounted a raid to flush out heavily-armed gangsters believed to be hiding in the Amboni caves in Karash bush.

Today is World Toilet Day… Cheers! The banner ‘Toilets save lives’ might sound mundane, far-fetched... Or, at best: a smart-alecky trader’s way of drawing attention to toilet-related ware be fobbed off upon unwary prospective customers…! 

Seemingly for the umpteenth time, Tanzania’s major partners-in-development have come out in lavish praise for what they described as peaceful, stable transition from one govt to another.

ILIPOISHIA WIKI ILIYOPITA: Wiki iliyopita nilieleza juu ya kundi haramu la kigaidi la Al-Shabaab lilivyotuma vitisho vya kutaka kuvamia Majiji ya Dar na Mwanza nchini Tanzania kupitia mkanda wa video ulioonesha mwakilishi wa Kundi la Kigaidi la Dola ya Kiislam la Iraq na Lavent (ISIL), akimtaka Kiongozi wa Al-Shabaab kujiimarisha na kufanya mashambulizi kwenye majiji hayo. SASA ENDELEA… Katika kipindi hicho, polisi wa Tanzania...

Two firms operating in Dar es Salaam have distanced themselves from two of the three Chinese nationals who smuggled ivory worth over Sh826 million out of the country last month.

On the road with heroin smugglers
Mail & Guardian Online
After meeting a Tanzanian stowaway, Sean Christie gets caught up in a hair-raising heroin run from Dar es Salaam to Cape Town. I first met Adam three years ago, in a forlorn place under Nelson Mandela Boulevard, the freeway that snips the City of Cape ...

Drug Dealers, Ivory Smugglers Think Twice!
AllAfrica.com
The government and the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the United States of America have launched a 'Canine Detection Programme.' Through this programme, Tanzanian police officers with specially-trained dogs will be posted at the Dar es ...

Ahmed lost his father and brother to fighting in Somalia, tried to escape to Australia as a refugee, but found himself stranded in Indonesia.