Haul of giant snails seized in LA

Team Tanzania captain Suleiman Kidunda has promised that the side will cause upsets at the 2014 Commonwealth Games planned to start next Wednesday in Glasgow, Scotland.

It took only 10 minutes – between 7.30pm and 7.40pm – on July 5 for three Chinese nationals to cart through Julius Nyerere International Airport eight travel bags concealing ivory worth over Sh826 million, The Citizen can exclusively reveal today.

Police in Togo say they have arrested three men after finding nearly two tons of ivory in a container destined for Vietnam.

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12 held over massive drug haul
Daily News
POLICE in Dar es Salaam are holding eight Iranians and four Pakistanis over possession of 201 kilogrammes of heroin, which they were smuggling into the country from Iran. The Head of Anti-Narcotics Unit, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police (SACP) ...
Tanzanian authorities intercept ship with over 200 kg heroinShanghai Daily (subscription)
Tanzania intercepts ship with 200 kg of heroinIndileak

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Heroin haul in Tanzania valued at $5.5 million
Sabahi Online
The heroin stash seized Tuesday by Tanzanian police near the Dar es Salaam port is valued at $5.5 million (9 billion shillings), making it one of the largest heroin seizures in the country's history, Tanzania's The Citizen reported Wednesday (February 5th).
Tanzania Drug Dealers Discover New Way Of Trafficking: officialCoastweek

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Kenya's government says it has seized illegal ivory from at least 114 elephants in the port city of Mombasa, its biggest find this year.

The French army says it has seized 1.5 tonnes of drugs and a cache of weapons from militant Islamists in the desert in Niger.

An Australian navy ship seizes heroin with an estimated street value of more than half a billion dollars from a boat off the east African coast, officials say.

Police in Togo discover a container holding more than two tonnes of ivory destined for Vietnam, the second such find in a week.