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Daniel Keane

Ivory trader in Uganda jailed for life in country’s harshest sentence for the crime

African elephants stand under a tree at the Murchison Falls National Park in northwest of Uganda

(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

A Ugandan ivory trader has been sentenced to life in prison – the country’s longest ever sentence for the crime.

Pascal Ochiba was arrested in January this year in a suburb of the capital Kampala with two pieces of ivory, weighing around 10kg.

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