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Every morning, Valerie Mukamazimpaka, a businesswoman selling various food products from Rubavu, a district in Northwestern Rwanda, wakes up early morning to cross “Petite Barrière,” one of the busiest border crossings with the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
An investigation into illegal ivory trafficking found social media linked traders and buyers while villagers smuggle the ivory across frenetic borders.
Corruption might seem normal in South Africa, but an international financial task force disagrees, writes RUSI Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies’s Sasha Erskine and Tom Keatinge.