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Elephant Slaughter, Corruption, and Illegal Ivory Trade Trigger Environmentalists’ Objections to Millennium Challenge Corporation’s $450 Million Aid to Tanzania

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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today appealed to Secretary of State John Kerry and Dana J. Hyde, the Chair and CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), to defer approval of additional aid funding of up to $450 million until Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete takes action against the corruption and criminal syndicates behind the nation’s massive elephant poaching epidemic and its large scale smuggling of poached ivory to China. The objection b

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