Watching Tanzania: catch all

[davidbfpo]

A joint operation by the British and Australian navies seized the largest ever haul of heroin at sea, weighing 1,032 kilogrammes, the MoD announced last night..... were found on a dhow, or sailboat, some 30 miles off the coast of east Africa near Kenya and Tanzania....hidden in a cargo of cement. They were later destroyed...This is the sixth seizure of heroin by the Combined Maritime Forces since January

Link:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ul-at-sea.html

[davidbfpo]

Shipments of heroin are unloaded from dhows and cargo ships off the shores of Kenya and Tanzania, and taken ashore on small speedboats. They are then broken up into still smaller packages before being “muled” to Europe from international airports in Kenya and Ethiopia. Sometimes they are consolidated and sent by lorry to South Africa for onward shipping. Some of the heroin enters the African market to feed nascent demand, particularly in Zanzibar, Mombasa and Dar es Salaam, where heroin use is slowly rising. Heroin is also smuggled to consumers in South Africa and Nigeria. In Kenya and Tanzania criminal gangs with close ties to political and security elites control the trans-shipment.

Link, behind a registration wall:www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21639560-east-african-states-are-being-undermined-heroin-smuggling-smack-track?

[davidbfpo]

A rare report on Tanzania in The Guardian:http://www.theguardian.com/global-de...poster-sellers

A taster:

In 2013, Tanzania was the second biggest recipient of foreign aid in sub-Saharan Africa, receiving $3.43bn (£2.19m) from donors. Despite years of relative peace, and economic growth of more than 5% annually for the past decade, around two-thirds of its nearly 49 million people still live in poverty.

[davidbfpo]

I have merged two stand-alone threads and changed the title to 'Watching Tanzania: catch all'.