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Timber Trafficking

Timber Trafficking

From Cameroon to Senegal, we investigate the layers of looting in the timber trade.

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precious wood

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Timber trafficking: The hidden history of looting It is a universally acknowledged truth. The continent’s forests continue to deteriorate year after year. There are many reasons for this rampant defor...

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Crown fire

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Côte d’Ivoire: The case that led to the fall of Alain-Richard Donwahi Arrested in November 2021, Ibrahim Lakiss, an Ivorian-Lebanese logger, is suspected of having set up a racketeering system with the complicity of nume...

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'unauthorised exploitation'

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Cameroon-Nigeria: from Yaoundé to Lagos, wood and money For nearly 15 years, a new forestry law in Cameroon has been in the making to curb the illicit trade in precious woods. While waiting for its promulga...

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white-collar mafia

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Senegal: when timber trafficking fuels rebellion in Casamance Between Senegal and China, via The Gambia, the illegal trade in rosewood continues to flourish. An ecological disaster that generates colossal sums of...

© Three-quarters of Africa’s tropical timber is shipped to China. MONTAGE JA: Alfredo D’AMATO/PANOS-REA

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Decimated forests

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Africa: The road to plundering precious woods For more than 10 years, this illegal trafficking has been spreading in Africa from country to country as forests are decimated. We take a look at the ...

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race against time

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DRC: Tshisekedi and the impossible clean-up of the Congolese forests The Congolese head of state has promised to bring order to the forestry sector, but given the anarchy that reigns there, does he have the means to rea...

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