The Environmental Crime Crisis

The illegal charcoal trade controlled by Al Shabaab

Beirut

Damascus

LEBANON

Baghdad

IRAN

Amman

IRAQ

Jerusalem

Cairo

KUWAIT

Kuwait

Khasab

EGYPT

Manama

Creek of Sharjah

QATAR

Doha

Dubay

Riyadh

Abu Dhabi

Muscat

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

SAUDI ARABIA

OMAN

Jizan

YEMEN

Khartoum

Sanaa

Asmara

Al Ahmadi

SUDAN

Aden

DJIBOUTI

Djibouti

SOMALILAND

Hargeysa

Addis Ababa

ETHIOPIA

SOUTH SUDAN

Country of origin Charcoal illegal trade Main importer Area controlled by

SOMALIA

Juba

the Al Shabaab militia Transit country Main shipping lane

Mogadishu

UGANDA

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Baraawe

KENYA

Main shipping port Other important shipping port Al Shabaab “taxing” checkpoint Secondary shipping lane Sources: UN Security Council, Somalia report of the Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea submitted in accordance with resolution 2060, 2012

Kampala

Anole Buulo Xaaji checkpoint

Kismaayo

Koday

Nairobi

RWANDA

Kigali

Buur Gaabo

Bujumbura

BURUNDI

TANZANIA

Figure 16: The illegal charcoal trade controlled by Al Shabaab.

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