Tanzania, June 2 -- Dar es Salaam. The High Court of Tanzania has sentenced two Dar es Salaam residents to life imprisonment after finding them guilty of trafficking more than 15 kilogrammes of heroin, while acquitting a third accused person for lack of evidence.

The Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Division of the High Court, sitting in Dar es Salaam and presided over by Justice Sedekia Kisanya, convicted Suleiman Ngulangwa and a diploma student at the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT), Mr Farid Said, for trafficking 15.19 kilogrammes of heroin.

The court, however, acquitted Ms Sharifa Bakari, the mother of Farid Said and aunt of Mr Suleiman Ngulangwa, after finding that the prosecution had failed to link her to the narcot...