Uganda

A body has been found by police searching for a newly-wed father, missing after trying to save his son in the River Nile. Robert Kaweesi, 48, from Birmingham, was with his wife, Justine Katantazi, and their four children on holiday in Uganda when they went swimming. The 12-year-old got into...

A US judge sentenced an extradited Liberian man to 63 months in prison for conspiring to traffic millions of dollars' worth of horns and ivory from endangered rhinoceros and elephants, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The estimated average retail value of the rhinoceros horn and elephant ivory was at least around $3.4 million and $4 million respectively.

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KINSHASA (Reuters) - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo has pulled out of one of the largest cities in the country's east after deadly protests against its failure to protect civilians, Congolese and U.N. officials said Thursday. Butembo, a trading hub of almost a million people,...

NEW YORK (AP) — A citizen of Liberia and resident of Uganda has been sentenced to over five years in prison after admitting that he participated in wildlife trafficking that authorities say moved millions of dollars in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory. Moazu Kromah was sentenced Thursday in Manhattan federal court to five years and three months in prison by Judge Gregory H. Woods. Kromah has been held without bail since he was extradited to the United States from Uganda in June 2019. Prosecutors say he was involved in wildlife trafficking that involved the illegal poaching of over 35 rhinoceros and more than 100 elephants.