MCCONNELL: How criminal gangs are killing Africa’s elephants

>Shortly before 11 am on the last Saturday in May, a heavily laden white Mitsubishi truck pulled into the Fuji Motors East Africa car dealership in an industrial neighbourhood on the northern edge of Mombasa.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Jan

Criminal gangs split Kampala

Kampala City is changing face and so is its crime tree. The city is expanding and crime is surging.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

26 Apr

Kimamba Criminal gangs now steal livestock

Kimamba Criminal gangs now steal livestock
IPPmedia
Criminal gangs have turned Kibamba suburb of Dar es Salaam their territory of operation, The Guardian on Sunday can report. A weeklong investigations by this Newspaper have revealed a number criminal incidences in the area with most of them going ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Feb

COMMENTARY: How corrupt, failed criminal justice system fuels mob killing

>I have heard many stories of crowds meting out justice in Tanzania.  The punishments range from stoning to placing a tire over the head of a person suspected to be a thief dousing it with petrol and setting it alight, also known as “neck-lacing”.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

20 Mar

EU launches plan to minimize killing of elephants

EU launches plan to minimize killing of elephants
Daily News
TANZANIA is to benefit from a new European Union (EU) initiative aimed at minimizing the illegal killing of elephants and other endangered species. The Programme Officer- Climate Change and Environment at the EU Delegation to Tanzania, Maria Chiara ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Oct

South Africa plans to leave International Criminal Court: ANC

South Africa plans to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC), a deputy minister said on Sunday, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan's president earlier this year.

 

10 years ago

News24

11 Nov

Who is exterminating Africa's elephants?

Who is exterminating Africa's elephants?
News24
A hard-hitting new report released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) last week, exposes corrupt individuals in the government of Tanzania, the country most severely affected by the slaughter, as enabling the burgeoning illegal ivory trade ...

 

10 years ago

News24

10 Mar

Tracking the demise of Africa's elephants

News24
Tracking the demise of Africa's elephants
News24
More than 53 000 elephants have been massacred in the last decade in Tanzania's Selous game reserve, according to the Conservation Action Trust. In Chad's Zakouma National Park 4 300 elephants counted in 2002 were reduced to just 450 in 2011.

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Africa's elephants in net decline

A new study suggests the number of Africa's elephants has declined to a critical point.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Sep

PETER MARTELL : Protecting Africa’s elephants with Google

As elephant poaching in Africa by organised crime gangs using high-tech equipment rises, those working to stop their extinction in the wild have turned to technology too.

 

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