Regional partnership underway to help Somalia enforce the ban on illegal charcoal trade

[Deeq A.]

Seven years ago in 2012, a United Nations Security Council Resolution placed an embargo on the export of charcoal from Somalia. The embargo sought to address illegal logging, massive deforestation and land degradation which charcoal production in Somalia had been fueling, in addition to exacerbating communal violence and regional conflicts, which often led to humanitarian crises.

Source: Hiiraan Online