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Tanzania’s most notorious elephant poacher, nicknamed “The Devil”, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Boniface Matthew Maliango was responsible for killing thousands of elephants, a conservation organisation said. He was arrested in Dar es Salaam in September 2015 after a year-long manhunt. His crimes were the focus of a Netflix documentary film, The Ivory Game, produced by actor Leonardo DiCaprio. Maliango’s nickname, Shetani, means devil in Swahili. The Elephant Action League, which fights wildlife crime, said he ran an ivory trafficking network across five African countries: Tanzania, Burundi, Zambia, Mozambique and southern Kenya. He was sentenced alongside his…

Two Makerere University Students female opposition activists identified as Maria Nalwoga and Nakimbugwe Shirat have gone missing in the Police cells where they were detained after the chaotic Wandegeya pre-election crackdown that left several youths behind bars. The missing students are active Democratic Party (Makerere University chapter) Leaders who are said to have been arrested at Akamwesi hostel. They were conducting a strategic meeting lead by to Democratic party official Gerald Seranda and Walter Lubega Mukaku. “The girls are part of the people who were arrested on Yesterday evening in Makerere, but to our surprise we have not found them…