Nairobi to charge suspected Chinese ivory smuggler

Salon
Nairobi to charge suspected Chinese ivory smuggler
Africa Science News Service
A suspected Chinese ivory smuggler is expected to be arraigned in a Makadara Law Courts, Nairobi, Kenya this morning. Tang Yong Jian, 40, was arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) while on transit from Napula, Mozambique to ...
40-year-old Chinese man arrested at JKIA with ivory disguised as cupsThe Standard Digital News
Conservationists to Hong Kong: “Ivory is not art”Salon
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Africa Science News Service

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

ABC News

23 Dec

Interpol: Kenyan Suspected Ivory Smuggler Arrested

The Guardian
Interpol: Kenyan Suspected Ivory Smuggler Arrested
ABC News
Kenyan police have arrested an alleged ivory trafficker, who had been on the run for months, the international police agency said Tuesday. Feisal Ali was arrested at a rental house in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Monday evening, said the head of Interpol in ...
Interpol: man wanted for ivory smuggling caught in TanzaniaChron.com

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Jan

Chinese ivory smuggler gets record sentence

>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.

 

9 years ago

Quartz

09 Oct

Tanzania says its most infamous ivory smuggler is this elderly Chinese ...

U.S. News & World Report
Tanzania says its most infamous ivory smuggler is this elderly Chinese ...
Quartz
Tanzanian authorities claim they have arrested a kingpin of the illegal ivory trade—an elderly Chinese woman that has been living in Dar es Salaam since the 1970s, working as a translator, restaurant owner, and pepper farm owner. Tanzania's National ...
Tanzania: Wildlife activists praise arrest of Chinese womanBristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)
The “Queen of Ivory” arrested in...

 

11 years ago

AFP

19 Mar

Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years

Tanzania jails Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years
AFP
Dar es Salaam — A court in Tanzania jailed on Wednesday a Chinese ivory smuggler for 20 years amid a crackdown to stem a surge in poaching. Yu Bo, 45, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of 81 elephant tusks and the skins of two pangolins, which are ...

 

9 years ago

Appeal

08 Oct

Tanzania police charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivory

Tanzania police charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivory
Appeal-Democrat
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania (AP) — A Chinese woman has been charged in a Tanzanian court with smuggling nearly 1.9 tons of ivory. Businesswoman Yang Clan, 66, was charged Wednesday before Magistrate Renatus Lutatinisibwa alongside two ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Oct

Chinese woman faces Sh5.4bn ivory charge

A Chinese woman described by investigators as the “kingpin of ivory trading” was yesterday charged with smuggling elephant tusks worth Sh5.4 billion.

 

9 years ago

News24

09 Oct

Tanzania cops charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivory

News24
Tanzania cops charge Chinese woman with smuggling ivory
News24
Dar es Salaam - A Chinese woman has been charged in a Tanzanian court with smuggling nearly 1.9 tons of ivory as wildlife activists applauded the move by Tanzanian authorities to crack down on the illegal ivory trade, which has devastated the elephant ...
Prosecutors Say This 66-Year-Old Chinese Woman is One of Africa's Most ...NDTV
The News in photo of 8th October 2015Daily News | The National Newspaper (press release)...

 

9 years ago

Zegabi

13 Oct

Chinese 'Ivory Queen' to Fight Ivory Smuggling Charges in Tanzania

Zegabi
Chinese 'Ivory Queen' to Fight Ivory Smuggling Charges in Tanzania
Zegabi
8979794_G A 66-year-old Chinese woman who was arrested by a specialized wildlife task force in Tanzania last week will fight charges that she masterminded a multinational crime syndicate involved in smuggling over 700 tusks to Asia. On Monday, Yang ...
Chinese 'Ivory Queen' innocent, will fight Tanzanian charges- lawyerReuters Africa
Chinese 'Queen of Ivory' Arrested in TanzaniaEnvironment News Service
Wildlife...

 

10 years ago

Voice Of America

23 Dec

Interpol Nabs Accused Ivory Smuggler

Voice of America
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'...

 

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