{"id":21106,"date":"2015-11-08T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tanzanian-police-arrest-four-chinese-with-11\/"},"modified":"2015-11-08T03:52:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T03:52:05","slug":"tanzanian-police-arrest-four-chinese-with-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tanzanian-police-arrest-four-chinese-with-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzanian police arrest four Chinese with 11 rhino horns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Tanzanian police said Sunday they had arrested four Chinese men after finding 11 rhino horns hidden beneath their car in one of the largest seizures in the east Africa country.}<\/p>\n<p>The four were arrested on Friday in the southwestern district of Mbeya after they crossed into Tanzania from neighbouring Malawi, a police statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An investigation is ongoing, and the suspects will soon appear in court,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>African rhinos have two horns, meaning the seizure represents the death of at least six animals.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of rhinos are massacred every year for their horn, used in East Asia for its supposed medicinal qualities.<\/p>\n<p>The latest tallies show the slaughter of rhinos has climbed to a new high. Last year saw a record 1,215 rhino killed for their horn.<\/p>\n<p>Demand for the rhinoceros horn &#8212; which is made of keratin, which is also found in hair and nails &#8212; has boomed in Vietnam and China, where it is valued for its supposed medicinal properties.<\/p>\n<p>The highest levels of rhino poaching takes place in South Africa, which is home to around 20,000 rhino, or 80 percent of the world population.<\/p>\n<p>Poaching is rampant in east African nations including Tanzania and Kenya, but poachers there focus more on elephant killing.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-9053 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tanzania_rhinos.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The New Vision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Tanzanian police said Sunday they had arrested four Chinese men after finding 11 rhino horns hidden beneath their car in one of the largest seizures in the east Africa country.} The four were arrested on Friday in the southwestern district of Mbeya after they crossed into Tanzania from neighbouring Malawi, a police statement said. &#8220;An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070103,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21106.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21106.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21106.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21106.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21106.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21106.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21106"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}