US body sues over ban on Tanzania trophies

>Tanzania yesterday reiterated its call to the international community to ban trade on ivory and rhino products in order to counter the escalating poaching of the critically endangered animals.

A United States judge on Friday declined to lift a ban on importing sport-hunted African elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Tanzania. The decision is a major setback for Tanzania, which has appealed to the US government to drop its stance.

TRA sues ports body over tax default
Daily News
THE Commissioner General of the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has taken to the Court of Appeal the dispute of non-payment of about 3bn/- income tax by the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) for the income years between 2001 and 2005.
Supreme Court doors 'not wide open'The Zimbabwe Standard
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>A prominent global organisation working to achieve fair treatment and social integration of people with albinism has welcomed Tanzania’s latest move to protect albinos.

Independent Online
Tanzania's 'whites' hunted as trophies
Independent Online
Handout picture released on October 20, 2014 from Gavi Alliance shows an albino boy getting immunised with the measles and rubella vaccine in Moshi, Tanzania. Photo: GAVI ALLIANCE / KAREL PRINSLOO/AFP. 1/6. July 17 2015 at 06:10pm.
Albinism marks you for hunting in TanzaniaCitizen
The shame of how Tanzania 'white' people who are hunted as trophiesThe New Age Online

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Nature World News
United States bans elephant trophies from Tanzania and Zimbabwe
Wildlife News
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on Friday announced a ban on the import of elephant trophies from Tanzania and Zimbabwe during the 2014 hunting season. The USFAWS has questioned whether there is sufficient monitoring of the ...
US bans imports of sport-hunted Zim elephant tusksNewsDay
US Issues Temporary Ban of Elephant Trophy Imports from Zimbabwe and ...Nature World News

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Police in Tanzania arrest one man after discovering bags containing human body parts in the port city of Dar es Salaam.

Tanzania: Why the Anti-Graft Body Needs to Be Overhauled
AllAfrica.com
President John Magufuli's anti-graft war gained new momentum on Wednesday when he sent home the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) director general, Dr Edward Hoseah, accusing him of underperformance. The massive bribery ...

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Albinos in Tanzania Are Killed 'Like Animals' So Their Body Parts Can Be Used ...
Headlines & Global News
Albinism is a lack of pigmentation that causes pale skin and light hair. (Photo : Twitter Photo Section). Mtobi Namigambo had gone to work for the day when his then 3-month-old son, May Mosi, was attacked. "I had gone to the lake to fish. They were all alone ...
Albinos being killed for body partsWOAI
Tanzania's Albinos 'Killed like Animals' for Body Parts Used in...