Two to spend 42 years in jail over ivory tusk trading

Tanzania: Two to Spend 42 Years in Jail Over Ivory Tusk Trading
AllAfrica.com
Katavi — Mpanda District Magistrate Court in Katavi Region yesterday sentenced two people to 42 years imprisonment after they were convicted of smuggling four elephant tusks worth Sh60million. Resident Magistrate Odira Amwol sentenced the duo to the ...

Iringa man to spend 30 years in jail for raping housemaid
Daily News
A HERDSMAN at Ipamba Hospital in Iringa Region, Damian Kindole, will remain behind bars 30 years for raping a housemaid. The housemaid was employed by a nurse, working at the hospital. The imprisonment of Kindole followed a decision by the Court of ...

Cairo court sentences three al-Jazeera journalists accused of supporting Muslim Brotherhood to seven years in jail.

Cheka to serve 3 years in jail
Daily News
PROFESSIONAL boxer Francis Cheka, popularly known as SMG, has been sentenced to three years in jail for assaulting his bar manager, Bahati Kibanda. Morogoro Regional Court Senior Resident Magistrate Said Msuya said after completing his sentence, ...

The High Court in Dar es Salaam has sentenced a businessman who attempted to smuggle  91 swallowed heroin capsules through Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) to 20 years in jail.

Radio dominates the advertising sector in Tanzania, contributing just over 50% of revenues, with TV accounting for about 30%

Increased Internet access will generate more consumer spend than any other media product or service in the next five years in the South African entertainment and media industry, according to a report issued by PwC today (http://www.pwc.com). South Africa’s entertainment and media market is expected to grow by 10.2% compounded annually (CAGR) from 2014 – 2018 to a...

>He led a fabulous lifestyle in the land of plenty and enjoyed luxuries that few back home in Tanzania would even dream of. Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza had made it big time in America, it seemed. 

The High Court on Friday reduced a three year sentence facing former cabinet ministers, Basil Mramba (76) and Daniel Yona (75) to two years.

A Ugandan woman named Nambi Fatumah has been sentenced to 5 years in prison together with her baby in Kuwait for getting pregnant outside marriage.

According to the chairperson of the Association of Ugandans living in Asian and Arab countries, Ali Nusbuga, Fatumah was produced to court a few months ago and would have been saved from the verdict had the government and Human Rights bodies intervened.

He said that much it breaks the law in Kuwait for a woman that is not married to get...