EU launches anti-smuggler operation

Libya criticises EU proposals to use force to destroy boats belonging to people smugglers taking migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe.

Tanzania launches new anti-poaching awareness campaign
GlobalPost
DAR ES SALAAM, June 19 (Xinhua) -- The Tanzanian government has launched a new public awareness campaign to inform the public about the severe poaching crisis currently in the east African nation. The campaign was launched on Thursday by the ...

Dr Bilal's wife launches anti-extortion campaign
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A nationwide campaign to end sexual exploitation was yesterday launched under an anti-extortion banner. Leading the launch in Dar es Salaam, the Vice President's wife, Mama Asha Bilal, called upon victims of 'sextortion' to come forward and report to ...

 

New high dose strength treatment designed to reduce number of tablets taken per dose. Coartem® 80/480 is an easy-to administer medicine that provides effective malaria treatment for both adults and children weighing 35kg or more or above 12 years of age 

Novartis has announced today the launch of a new high dose strength Coartem® 80/480 (artemether/lumefantrine 80 mg/480 mg), for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in adults and older children who weigh 35kg and above. The drug has...

Fortunes made and lives lost in Libya's deserts

Hardly a week after the media published an appeal by the Interpol, a court here has handed a 60-year jail term to Pakistani Kamran Ahmed after finding him guilty of four counts related to illegal export of live wildlife without permits.

>A court in Kenya today slapped a record sentence on a Chinese ivory smuggler, the first person to be convicted under tough new laws designed to stem a surge in poaching.

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Interpol Nabs Accused Ivory Smuggler
Voice of America
The international police agency Interpol says it has arrested an alleged ivory trafficker who had been on the run for months. The head of Interpol, Vitalis Okumu, said Tuesday that officers apprehended Feisal Ali a day earlier at a rental home in Dar es Salaam, ...
Interpol Has Arrested One of Its Most Wanted Environmental FugitivesVICE News
Tanzania arrests Kenyan leading ivory traffickerPress TV
Police arrest 'most wanted'...

A Chinese ivory smuggler is ordered to pay a record fine or spend seven years in jail, under tough new Kenyan anti-poaching laws.