Tanzania Denies Chinese Officials Smuggled Ivory

Tanzania's government is denying allegations in a new report that officials traveling with China's president last year illegally purchased thousands of kilograms of ivory in the East African nation. China has also denied the allegations, made this week by a British nongovernmental group, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Tanzanian government spokesman Assah Mwambene told VOA's Swahili Service on Friday that the EIA had a sinister motive in releasing the...

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