Trafficking in the Sahel - Gas Lighting: WestAfrica
Kourou/Koualou, a tiny village in a neutral zone straddling Benin and Burkina Faso, was the centre of a one-million-litre-a-year cross-border illicit fuel trade, a snapshot of a phenomenon that spreads far across the 6,000-kilometre-wide African Sahel region.
"Fuel trafficking is undermining the rule of law; it's fuelling corruption," said François Patuel, Chief of the Research and Awareness Unit at the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes ."It's also enabling other forms of crime. That's why it needs to be addressed.
"They really exploit those needs in order to sell their criminal products, including contraband fuel," he added.
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