Wildlife loss link to child slavery

The government’s plan to protect the lives of animals in the Serengeti National Park by linking it with Lake Victoria’s ecosystem has provoked opposition from the community in the vicinity. The proposal to integrate the park in the Ghuba Speke game-controlled area faces at least three levels of conflicting interests.

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Regional Summit to Stop Wildlife Crime and Advance Wildlife Conservation ...
AllAfrica.com
Arusha — A two-day Regional Summit to stop Wildlife Crime and Advance Wildlife Conservation was officially opened today by the President of the United Republic of Tanzania HE Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

A man has been sentenced to four years in jail in Niger in the first ever conviction for slavery in the country for taking a "fifth wife".

A London court convicts a doctor and his nurse wife of keeping a Nigerian man as a slave for 24 years in their home in the city.

Human rights groups welcome Mauritania's new anti-slavery law which makes it a "crime against humanity" and doubles prison terms for offenders.

Satirist asks when Mauritania will end servitude

2 sold girls still in suspected slavery in Tanzania
Zambia Daily Mail
TWO out of the 11 girls who were allegedly sold by their parents to Tanzanian businessmen are still missing. Immigrations director general Moola Milomo said in an interview yesterday his organisation and other stakeholders have failed to locate the only two ...