Mozambique: Illegal Miners to Be Deported to Tanzania

Maputo — A court in the northern Mozambican province of Niassa has ordered the deportation to Tanzania of 10 Tanzanian citizens found guilty of looting mineral resources inside the Niassa National Reserve.

The court sentenced the ten men, who had entered the country illegally, to prison terms of between a year and two months and six years under Mozambique's conservation legislation. But, because of the overcrowding in Mozambican jails, the court decided to send them to serve their sentences in Tanzanian jails. In addition to the jail time, the ten were ordered to pay over a million meticais (about 16,400 US dollars, at current exchange rates) for the damage they caused to the environment.

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