300,000 Africans smuggled into Europe each year
As many as 300,000 Africans are being smuggled into Europe each year. The price of transport ranges from $385 to over $1,000.
Source: Pascal Fletcher, “Migrant smuggling is ” crime crying for justice” -U.N.,” Reuters, September 18, 2006.
$23 million of diamonds smuggled out of Ivory Coast each year
Source: Partnership Africa Canada, “Killing Kimberley? Conflict Diamonds and Paper Tigers”, The Diamonds and Human Security Project, Revised Edition, November 2006,pg.5,(accessed: November 13, 2006).
20 percent of Sierra Leone’s diamonds were being smuggled out of the country in 2005
Source: Tristan McConnell, “Fighting diamond smuggling in Africa,” Christian Science Monitor, July 30, 2007,(accessed: July 31, 2007).
Counterfeit auto parts in Kenya
Motor dealers in Kenya lost 65 percent of their market share to counterfeits in 2006, up from 50 percent in 2005. In addition, over 80 percent of Toyota parts in Kenya were found to be counterfeit.
Source: Roselyne Obala and Jane Akinyi, ” Revenue authority to investigate sale of counterfeit Toyota parts,” The Standard (Kenya), April [...]
AK-47 price in the Niger Delta
Due to an increase in supply, the price of an AK-47 dropped from $250 to $75 in the Niger Delta over an 18 month period.
Source: Douglas Farah, ” The Merchant of death,” Foreign Policy, November/December 2006, Sidebox: Arms Around the [...]
Key sources of elephant ivory trade
The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon and Nigeria are considered to be key sources of the elephant ivory trade.
Source: AP, “Report: Illegal Ivory Imports on Rise,” ABC News, May 10, 2007, http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3161698 (accessed: May 11, 2007).
