Australian navy makes big drug bust off Tanzania

AFP
Australian navy makes big drug bust off Tanzania
AFP
Sydney — The Australian navy said Saturday it seized and destroyed 353 kilogrammes of heroin with an estimated street value of more than Aus$700 million (US$627 million) in a mission off the coast of Tanzania. HMAS Melbourne discovered the haul when ...
HMAS Melbourne seizes estimated $706 million in drugs from boat intercepted ...ABC Online
Navy destroys massive heroin haulSky News Australia
Australian authorities destroy $630 million...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

The Australian

10 Feb

Australian navy makes $700m heroin bust off Tanzania

AFP
Australian navy makes $700m heroin bust off Tanzania
The Australian
THE Australian navy has seized and destroyed 353kg of heroin with an estimated street value of more than $700 million in a mission off the coast of Tanzania. HMAS Melbourne discovered the haul when crew boarded a vessel on Wednesday as part of a ...
Australian authorities destroy $630 million worth of heroinCNN
HMAS Melbourne seizes estimated $706 million in drugs from boat intercepted ...ABC Online
Navy destroys massive...

 

11 years ago

Michuzi

11 Feb

Second bust by Australian navy in a week of a vessel with drugs off Tanzania coast

Crew members of HMAS Melbourne with seized drugs prior to
them being destroyed. Photo: ABIS JAYSON TUFREY

The Australian Associated Press reports that on Friday, Australian warship HMAS Melbourne made another multimillion dollar drug bust on the high seas off Tanzania, the second in a week following the seizure and destruction of 385 kilogrammes of heroin from a vessel in the same area on February 5th, 2014.

The two big drug hauls are estimated to be worth more than A$1...

 

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FXStreet

25 Feb

Australian PM Morrison: 15 Australian cases of coronavirus linked to Wuhan have now been treated

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TheCitizen

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Enterprising young Russian makes big impact

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11 years ago

Michuzi

28 Apr

Record heroin bust off Indian ocean near Kenya, Tanzania high seas border

HMAS Darwin’s ridged hull inflatable boats, with members of the boarding party team embarked, approach the suspicious dhow to conduct a boarding.
By Combined Maritime Forces 
Australian warship HMAS Darwin, operating under the command of a Royal Navy Commodore and his British team has made the largest ever seizure of heroin from a dhow at sea.
The record breaking 1,032 kilograms haul, with an estimated UK street value in excess of 140 million pounds, was discovered onboard a dhow in the...

 

9 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

22 Dec

Tanzania: All-Out War Declared Against Drug Dealers

Tanzania: All-Out War Declared Against Drug Dealers
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — Home Affairs minister Charles Kitwanga yesterday declared an all-out war against drug trafficking, directing top police officers to work together to dismantle a network of drug dealers operating in the country. He told journalists at ...
State to deal with police station attackersDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)

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East African Business Week

03 Mar

Tanzania makes its stand clear on Nile

Daily News Egypt
Tanzania makes its stand clear on Nile
East African Business Week
MEANDERS: The Nile river is the world's longest waterway and passes through 9 countries before it reaches the flood plains of Egypt, who have long claimed the bulk of the water. DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - The government wants the Nile waters to shared ...
Fahmy addresses foreign, domestic policy in AUC speechDaily News Egypt

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11 years ago

Five Deaths

30 Apr

Tanzania makes huge strides in preventing under

Daily News
Tanzania makes huge strides in preventing under-five deaths
Daily News
DAR ES SALAAM region has succeeded in preventing the deaths of under-five children by 95 per cent by providing timely vaccinations. Speaking in Dar es Salaam at the launch of World Immunization Week festivities, Temeke District Commissioner, Ms ...

 

11 years ago

Michuzi

Tanzania Set to Test New Anti-Malaria Drug

BY ABDUEL ELINAZA, 29 APRIL 2014  ALLAFRICA.COM
Guangzhou — TANZANIA could be headed to a malaria-free country, thanks to Chinese medical research findings that target the disease-causing parasite itself instead of the mosquitoes which carry it. The current approach to deal with malaria is to control mosquitoes, which spread the disease by either killing them with insecticides or by draining bodies of stagnant water in which their larvae live.
However, Dr Li Guoqiao of the Guangzhou...

 

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