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Current Feed ContentCONGO: Financial crisis threatens timber jobsBRAZZAVILLE Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Guy-Blaise Bakala, a timber worker in Pointe-Noire in the south of the Republic of Congo, has been sleeping badly since his bosses first announced they would have to let some workers go because the financial crisis is hitting the key timber sector."Every single day, our bosses tell us that we are not sheltered from unemployment because of what the company is going through," said the 39-year-old, who is married with four children.Bakala fears...GHANA: Locals hail EU pact to end illegal loggingA long queue of trucks loaded with timber, freshly sawed from Ghana's fast-depleting forests, lines up at Accra’s Tema Harbour to offload to ships bound for Europe. No one at the port in the Ghanaian capital knows if the timber delivered by the trucks is legally or illegally acquired. Customs official James Klutse makes a final check on the number of logs per truck. "My job is simple, to make sure I have the right number of logs," he told IRIN. "The source of the timber cannot become my...LIBERIA: Logging industry ready to restartWith mechanisms nowin place to resume logging operations and three companies awarded tenders,revenues from the lucrative industry will soon start creating jobs and fundingbasic social services, the Liberian government and its international partnerssay. “This time around logging will allow greaterparticipation by the rural population in the benefits of log exports,” BlamoRobinson, spokesman of the Liberian government’s Forestry Development Authority(FDA) told IRIN. The forestry expert for the...Timber exporter ordered to pay D44,350Principal Magistrate Moses Richards of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court on Friday, orderd one Dawda Bojang, a timber exporter to China, to pay the sum of D44,530 within two weeks. Dawsa Bojang was taken to court, by seventeen youths, all of whom he employed to load timbers into containers for China, for the past three months without a pay. When the charge sheet was read to him, he accepted owing the youths. The presiding Magistrate then ordered him to pay the young men of the sum, plus an...Youth Fined D1500 for Stealing TimberA youth, Sulayman Camara, was lately convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of D1500 or an option to serve three months in jail. Camara had admitted responsibility for stealing three pieces of timber from one Amadou Baldeh in Bijilo sometime last month. Before handing down the judgement, magistrate B.O. Jobe of the Bundung Magistrates’ Court advised Camara to desist from such unholy practices. He added that he would temper justice with mercy in Camara’s trial since the convict was a first...Tanzania's disappearing timber revenueMillions of dollars worth of timber revenue is being lost each year in Tanzania because of poor governance and rampant corruption in the forestry sector, according to a new report by TRAFFIC International, launched today. The report Forestry, governance and national development: Lessons learned from a logging boom in southern Tanzania documents alarming levels of corruption, illegal logging and exports of forest products from Tanzania. Annually, timber royalty losses amounted to US$58... |
