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Cameroon arrests ivory smugglers, seizes 118 elephant tusks

African elephants in the Serengeti national reserve in northern Tanzania. Ivory trafficking is fuelled by strong demand in Asia and the Middle East, where elephant tusks are used in traditional medicine.

Photo credit: Tony Karumba | AFP

By  AFP

What you need to know:

  • The group had trafficked nearly 675 kilograms (1,500 pounds) of the illicit cargo from neighbouring Gabon, which is home to more than half of Africa's remaining forest elephants.

Yaounde,

Cameroon authorities arrested four ivory smugglers attempting to transport nearly 120 elephant tusks through the country's south, officials said Friday.

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