How Ethiopia has cracked down on people smugglers

As Europe continues to grapple with the migrant crisis, Ethiopia has intensified a crackdown on smugglers it blames for luring thousands of people who want to seek better lives abroad.

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

The people pushed out of Ethiopia's fertile farmland

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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 ...

Sunbury Daily Item
Interpol seeks giraffe smugglers
Sunbury Daily Item
FILE - In this Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012 file photo, a giraffe walks past an Acacia tree, their principal source of food, at Crescent Island Wildlife Sanctuary on Lake Naivasha, Kenya. The international police agency Interpol on Monday, Nov. 17, 2014 began a Most ...
Nine on Interpol wanted list for environmental crimesGlobal Times
Interpol ups search for Pakistani who trafficked giraffes to QatarArabianBusiness.com
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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 ...