Mozambique: Two Ivory Traffickers Arrested

Maputo — Mozambique’s National Criminal Investigation Service (Sernic) has announced that on Tuesday it aborted an attempted sale of two elephant tusks in Pemba, capital of the northern province of Cabo Delgado.

According to the Cabo Delgado provincial spokesperson for Sernic, Neomia Joao, cited in Friday’s issue of the independent newsheet “Carta de Mocambique’, the tusks were being sold for 88,000 meticais (about 1,400 US dollars, at the current exchange rate), or 3,000 meticais a kilo.

The…