Tanzania

UNESCO has urged the Tanzanian government to re-consider its plans to undertake uranium mining and oil exploration in the protected Selous game reserve warning that such an action could result in the game reserve being placed on the World Heritage in Danger list. Tanzanian resource and tourism minister Ezekiel Maige has dismissed the warning by calling UNESCO an 'insignificant entity from which we cannot take orders'. The Selous game reserve is one of the largest reserves in Africa, covering 50,000 sq

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