On the road with heroin smugglers

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 ...

Mail & Guardian Online

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

AFKInsider

18 Jun

Drone Helps Seize Ton Of Heroin From Smugglers Bound For Tanzania

Drone Helps Seize Ton Of Heroin From Smugglers Bound For Tanzania
AFKInsider
A Scan Eagle is launched from a ship for a maritime mission. Photo: wired.com. Drones deployed from a U.K. Royal Navy warship helped intercept nearly a ton of heroin being transported by smugglers en route to Tanzania in the Indian Ocean, WestBriton ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Aug

Firms disown smugglers

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.

 

9 years ago

BBC

01 Oct

How Ethiopia has cracked down on people smugglers

How Ethiopia has cracked down on border smugglers

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

12 May

Drug Dealers, Ivory Smugglers Think Twice!

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 ...

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: 'I was deceived by people smugglers'

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

 

11 years ago

BBC

Smugglers 'kill six Egyptian guards'

Six Egyptian border guards have been killed in a clash with smugglers near the Libyan border, the military says.

 

10 years ago

Sunbury Daily Item

24 Nov

Interpol seeks giraffe smugglers

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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9 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Crackdown on smugglers in Ethiopia

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.

 

5 years ago

The Citizen Daily

02 Mar

Road Fund Board monitors road maintenance and socio-economic development across Tanzania

Road Fund Board monitors road maintenance and socio-economic development across Tanzania  The Citizen Daily

 

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