250,000 guides and porters worried about losing jobs as tourists take the easy way up Africa’s tallest peak
Tanzania is planning to build a car cable service on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak and a world heritage site. The country wants to boost tourist numbers but a quarter million porters and mountain guides worry the quick ride up the mountain is a threat to their livelihoods. Charles Kombe reports from Kilimanjaro.
Conservation organizations say the project will endanger the livelihoods of some 200,000 people, including farmers and fishermen
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