Sub-Saharan deliveries just got stranger.

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From delivering nine gorillas across two continents, to transporting the Webb Ellis Cup trophy and a specific heart internal defibrillator, courier company DHL reports that within sub-Saharan Africa, there has been an increase in strange delivery requests.

One was a 32kg consignment of Scottish delicacy haggis moved from the UK to Tanzania for an event. In Kenya, live human eyes are transported. The corneas have an extremely short life span so are highly perishable. One customer shipped his laundry from the UK to a southern...

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