Tanzania Court Jails Four Chinese Men for Rhino Horn Smuggling

Tanzania has sentenced four Chinese men to 20 years in jail each after they were convicted of smuggling rhino horns, part of a crackdown in sub-Saharan Africa on lucrative illegal poaching of protected wildlife. The East African country, which relies heavily on revenues from safari tourism and new President John Magufuli has pledged to root out poaching as part of a wider war on corruption. The Mbeya Resident Magistrate's Court in southern Tanzania handed the prison terms to the...

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