Decoding – A tenth of the harvests is diverted in this African country, the world’s leading producer.
It is generally at night that a curious parade takes place in the northwest of Ivory Coast. The local media report the same story. Every evening motorcycles and trucks that are full of illegal goods from the storage ranges on the borders of the country disappear. Dust, scent of diesel. The procession arises the mass lifts that have been devoured by Twilight. Direction Liberia, Guinea or Sierra Leone. The army helicopters mark the air, fly on the unpaved roads. You have to do it quickly. In human trafficking, the smuggling of a raw material hides markets all over the world: cocoa.
Chocolate cartels. The evocation can borrow to smile, but these criminal networks indeed threat the Ivorian economy. So much so that the authorities compare them with cocaine traders in Colombia. Between October and February between October and February between 100,000 and 200,000 tonnes of boxes illegal from the national territory …
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