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Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Authorities in Tanzania have arrested 124 suspected drug traffickers, as they intensified fight against drug trafficking in the country.<\/p>\n

Counter-narcotic agency\u2014the Drug and Enforcement Authority (DCEA) and the police nabbed the suspects during a well-coordinated drug raid between January and May this year.<\/p>\n

Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office (Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, Labour, Youth, Employment and Persons with Disability) Jenista Mhagama announced in Dodoma on Wednesday the arrest was in-line with the Drug Control Act No. 5 of 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cDCEA has been collaborating with other security agencies including the People\u2019s Defence Force to carry out anti narcotic operations on land, air and waters \u2026 the target is to block all entries for illicit drugs into the country,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Minister said the government is working on public awareness campaign as measures to stop but also mitigate people affected with illicit drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Tanzania. Authorities in Tanzania have arrested 124 suspected drug traffickers, as they intensified fight against drug trafficking in the country. Counter-narcotic agency\u2014the Drug and Enforcement Authority (DCEA) and the police nabbed the suspects during a well-coordinated drug raid between January and May this year. Minister of State, Prime Minister’s Office (Policy, Parliamentary Affairs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-30066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"\nAuthorities nabs 124 in drug operations - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Authorities in Tanzania have arrested 124 suspected drug traffickers, as they intensified fight against drug trafficking ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Authorities nabs 124 in drug operations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Authorities in Tanzania have arrested 124 suspected drug traffickers, as they intensified fight against drug trafficking ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-02T17:16:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/06\/img-60b7ab35c9116.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"974\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"662\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Authorities nabs 124 in drug operations\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-02T17:16:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations\"},\"wordCount\":149,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2021\/06\/img-60b7ab35c9116.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/authorities-nabs-124-in-drug-operations\",\"name\":\"Authorities nabs 124 in drug operations - 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