INB 2

Combating cigarettes smuggling in Ghana

In this article of 2007, the loss in excise duties was estimated to $.3.5 millions and smuggled cigarettes  represented one third of all the legally imported cigarettes.
Source: Modernghana.com

Fraud and corruption in Mauritius.

An interview with Bert Cunningham after he was forced to resign as Customs Comptroller.

Mauritius: the customs comptroller is forced to resign after threats on lhis life

An article in Le Mauricien (in French) on August 8 ,2008 with parts in English (see below).
It looks like Bert Cunnigham's life was threatened and that fraud involving ministers was involved although nothing was publicly admitted.

L'économie Camerounaise malade de la fraude?

Un article de Jeune Afrique (octobre 2007) qui parle aussi de corruption tandis que la contrebande a été invoquée pour expliquer la fermeture de l'usine de BAT en 2007. Durant la même période l'entreprise locale SITABAC redémarre (après plusieurs années d'interruption) et semble optimiste selon cet article (en anglais).

Ici en mai 2008 un bref article sur une saisie dans le port de Douala. En anglais, cette dépêche de la Voix de l'Amérique de septembre 2008, pessimiste sur l'état général dans la ville de Douala (3 millions d'habitants): les gens ont faim...

Qu'en est-il aujourd'hui?

Smuggling between Kenya and Uganda

This article from East Africa Business Week on April 28, 2008 via AllAfrica.com

Also this report by the Economic Policy Resource Center (pdf format)

Illicit trade between Uganda and Kenya has certainly persisted and is growing as available evidence shows. Kenya is the main source of smuggled cigarettes particularly Supermatch to Uganda.

Smuggling tobacco leafs into Malawi

This article published in 2006 in Tobacco Control Journal.

Smuggling of menthol cigarettes in Zambia causes BAT's loss

This article published  in June 2008 in the Zambia Daily Mail is  about illicit trade between Zambia and Tanzania.

The illicit trade in cigarettes according to Philip Morris

Philip Morris insists on counterfeit and the need for cooperation between governments and manufacturers.

RDC: Mastermind accusé

Via AllAfrica.com un article sur les accusations de fraude contre la société Mastermind.

Death and tobacco taxes by Prabhat Jha

This article published in 2007.

La situation au Mali

Ici un article sur la hausse des prix et la contrebande en Janvier 2003.

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Au sujet de Philippe Boucher

Philippe Boucher est consultant en communication avec une spécialisation dans les blogs, le web2.0.

Il collabore à la communication du programme ASTA financé par la Fondation Gates.

Il a été responsable des blogs  pour GLOBALink, le réseau internet anti-tabac de l'Union Internationale Contre le Cancer.

Il  publie en anglais toute une série de blogs spécialisés:  glkvideo, au sujet des campagnes de communication antitabac, tc images qui rassemble les meilleures images antitabac, graphic warnings consacré aux avertisements graphiques sur les paquets, smoke-free hotels sur les hotels non-fumeurs, rendezvous cyberentretiens avec des spécialistes du monde entier, le podcast globalink radio et en français,  la revue de presse,  pour des avertissements graphiques et nuigrav.

Il a été responsable en 2007 de la coordination du programme GLOBALink Afrique qui soutient la publication de blogs par des activistes Africains comme  Jackie Tumwine, Francisco Cabo, Pascal Bogui,  Véronique Le Clézio, Susie Mbouangouore , Patrick Musavuli...

Il a créé et gère le blog de l'émission de radio Tobacco & You, produite à Lagos.

Il édite Afrique contre le tabac et Tobacco Control in Africa, blogs d'information sur ce qui se passe sur ce continent.

INDEX - All the posts at a glance - Tous les articles

• FCA bulletin 79 for Saturday October 25 - 3 days ago
• Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Awards for Saturday October 25 - 3 days ago
• FCA bulletin 78 for Friday October 24 - 4 days ago
• Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Awards for Friday October 24 - 4 days ago
• FCA Bulletin 77 for Thursday October 23 - 5 days ago
• Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Awards for Thursday October 23 - 5 days ago
• What about the global financial crisis? by Joy Townsend - 5 days ago
• La contrebande cause de plusieurs milliards d'Euros de pertes fiscale pour les pays de l'Union Européenne - 5 days ago
• FCA Bulletin 76 for Wednesday October 22 - 6 days ago
• Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Awards for Wednesday October 22 - 6 days ago
• Jin Ling la cigarette clandestine qui envahit l'Europe - 6 days ago
• FCA bulletin 75 for Tuesday October 21 - 1 week ago
• Dirty Ashtray and Orchid Awards for Tuesday October 21 - 1 week ago
• Tobacco Underground: an international investigation by the Center for Public Integrity - 1 week ago
• Waves of smuggled cigarettes produced in Kaliningrad flood Europe - 1 week ago
• Members of the African delegations - 1 week ago
• Tobacco smuggling and terrorist groups - 1 week ago
• FCA bulletin 74 for monday October 20 - 1 week ago
• List of participants and observers - 1 week ago
• Bienvenue sur ce blog - 1 week ago
• Why this blog? - 1 week ago
• A message from the Framework Convention Alliance (FCA): Nations meet to give strength to global treaty to combat illicit tobacco trade - 1 week ago
• Commerce illicite au Sénégal - 1 week ago
• Organisation mondiale des douanes: les douanes de votre pays ont-elles un site internet? - 1 week ago
• Nigeria and Benin: Tobacco smuggling, the Seme and Cotonou connections - 1 week ago
• Eric LeGresley about smuggling in Africa - 1 week ago
• British American Tobacco and the "insidious impact of illicit trade" in cigarettes across Africa - 2 weeks ago
• UK: Why combating tobacco smuggling is a priority - 2 weeks ago
• Algérie: Quand les intempéries bloquent -temporairement- la distribution de cigarettes, y compris de contrebande. - 2 weeks ago
• Les adolescents du Québec et de l'Ontario fument de plus en plus de cigarettes de contrebande - 3 weeks ago
• Les cigarettes de contrebande American Legend proviennent d'Afrique subsaharienne via l'Algérie - 3 weeks ago
• Quelques informations sur la Côte d’Ivoire - 3 weeks ago
• INB2 - working documents - 1 month ago
• RDC: Mekako: savon ou cigarettes? - 1 month ago
• Sur les chemins de la contrebande au Maroc - 1 month ago
• About the situation in Tanzania - 1 month ago
• La contrebande de cigarettes en Algérie - 2 months ago
• La situation au Niger, "plaque tournante de la contrebande" - 2 months ago
• Combating cigarettes smuggling in Ghana - 2 months ago