How ivory haul was sneaked out at JNIA

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

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

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.

>Ugandan wildlife officers have seized a huge haul of elephant ivory and pangolin scales, representing the deaths of hundreds of endangered animals, police said yesterday.

Nairobi. Police are hunting for a Tanzanian who had rented a house in Nyali, Mombasa, in connection with the Sh11.4bn (Ksh570m) ivory haul seized in Singapore last week.

Four security officers at Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) were yesterday charged with aiding the recent smuggling out of ivory worth hundreds of millions of shillings.

>Dramatic details of how embattled Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza was sneaked back into his crisis-torn country from Tanzania can now be revealed.

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