The lucrative Asian black market for rhino horn, used in traditional medicine, and ivory has driven a boom in poaching across Africa. On November 9, at least 3 Chinese nationals were charged in Tanzania for possessing 706 tusks from poached elephants. Police and wildlife officers have cracked down on suspected poachers amid a surge of killings of elephant and rhino in the east African nation, operating under what was reported to be a shoot-to-kill policy and making sweeping arrests. The 3 accused were arrested a week ago in Dar es Salaam. They had hidden the tusks, weighing 1.8 tons and worth an estimated US$3.1 million, in containers.
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