If you don't know about the infamous charcoal trade of JVA then you basically know nothing about the criminal lucrative entreprise called JVA.
The whole money inflow of JVA was based on two things:
-Charcoal trade by far nr1.
-Import of goods for Mogadishu market, and a small volume of it for Southern regions. &
-Taxes of economic sources: port, airport etc.
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I remember Gen.Aideed banned charcoal trade back in the days, and recently the UIC banned it.
I hope the current adminstration in Kismanyo will ban it too.
Charcoal trade is an opportunistic trade with short-term benefits for the small group engaged in it, with devastating consequences for the whole of Somalia on the long-run.
Who ever does it surely gives no fuck about Somalia on the long-run and only is after short-term selfish goals.