Timber smuggling from Mozambique’s ancient forests to China is helping to drive an Islamist insurgency and organized crime in the southern African country, according to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
Illegal trade in rare hardwoods involving multimillion-dollar exports to China is in contravention of Beijing’s own log export ban, while it also finances jihadists in Cabo Delgado province, according to the four-year investigation released in May by the EIA, a nonprofit based in Washington.
