Tanzania: Two Caught With Over 150 Elephant Horns

Tanzania: Two Caught With Over 150 Elephant Horns
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — Police in Dar es Salaam have arrested two people with 156 elephant tusks, worth Sh1billion. Dar es Salaam special zone commander Suleiman Kova told reporters in the city yesterday that the tusks were seized on Sunday at Temeke ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Dec

Two caught with over 150 elephant horns

Police in Dar es Salaam have arrested two people with 156 elephant tusks, worth Sh1billion.

 

9 years ago

Capital FM Kenya (Press Release) (Blog)

19 Dec

Tanzania jails 4 Chinese for 20 yrs for smuggling rhino horns

Capital FM Kenya (press release) (blog)
Tanzania jails 4 Chinese for 20 yrs for smuggling rhino horns
Capital FM Kenya (press release) (blog)
The four men, identified as Song Lei, Xiao Shaodan, Chen Jianlian and Hu Liang, were arrested in the Mbeya region last month as they crossed into Tanzania from Malawi. They were sentenced on Wednesday/file. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dec 18 – A ...

 

10 years ago

BBC

Tanzania PM caught in corruption row

Tanzania's prime minister is under parliamentary pressure to resign over alleged fraudulent payments worth $120m (£76m) to an energy firm.

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

World Elephant Day: Conserve and protect the Elephant from the numerous threats it faces

The world is presently witnessing brutality & annihilation of one of the most charismatic mammals on earth, the African Elephant at a shocking rate in human history. Poaching, habitat loss and other cruelty are alarming. Tanzania being a treasure of elephants in Africa has recently revealed its catastrophe. 
The recent elephant census conducted in the main elephant ecosystems for seven months consecutively from May to November 2014, indicates   a significant decline of current elephant...

 

11 years ago

The Missoulian

09 Mar

Tanzania, long cautious, is caught in Rwanda feud

Tanzania, long cautious, is caught in Rwanda feud
The Missoulian
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The East African nation of Tanzania — long a force of quiet power in the region and a voice of restraint and non-interference in other countries' affairs — is embroiled in a potentially ugly feud with Rwanda and its press after ...

 

10 years ago

BBC News

27 Nov

Tanzania PM Mizengo Pinda caught in corruption row

BBC News
Tanzania PM Mizengo Pinda caught in corruption row
BBC News
Tanzania's prime minister is under pressure to resign over alleged fraudulent payments worth $120m (£76m) to an energy firm and top officials. Mizengo Pinda failed to properly oversee government finances, a parliamentary watchdog committee said.
Tanzania PM asked to resign over escrow account scandalNewstime Africa
Prime Minister Mizengo PindaIPPmedia

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10 years ago

Washington Post

23 Dec

Interpol: man wanted for ivory smuggling caught in Tanzania

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Interpol: man wanted for ivory smuggling caught in Tanzania
Washington Post
NAIROBI, Kenya — An official with the international police agency says police have arrested an alleged ivory trafficker, who had been on the run for months. The head of Interpol in Kenya, Vitalis Okumu, said Tuesday that Kenyan police arrested Feisal Ali at a ...
Elephant ivory smuggling 'kingpin' arrested in TanzaniaThe Guardian
Kenyan On 'Most Wanted' List for Poaching Arrested, Feisal Ali Nabbed By ...The...

 

9 years ago

East African Business Week

17 Aug

Tanzania elephant plan

Tanzania elephant plan
East African Business Week
In the next 15 years, the Tanzania government wants to build its elephant population to 100,000. I am not sure whether this was a mistake or not, but this figure seems very ambitious. By nature, elephants do not produce many off-springs. I am wondering ...

 

10 years ago

National Geographic

14 Jul

Is the Worst of Tanzania's Elephant Crisis Over?

National Geographic
Is the Worst of Tanzania's Elephant Crisis Over?
National Geographic
After announcing devastating elephant losses, a top Tanzanian minister says the poaching crisis has been curtailed. Picture of an elephant in Tanzania. A male elephant in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park spreads his ears as a warning. Between 2009 ...

 

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