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GHANA: Locals hail EU pact to end illegal logging

A long queue of trucks loaded with timber, freshly sawed from Ghana's fast-depleting forests, lines up at Accra’s Tema Harbour to offload to ships bound for Europe. No one at the port in the Ghanaian capital knows if the timber delivered by the trucks is legally or illegally acquired. Customs official James Klutse makes a final check on the number of logs per truck. "My job is simple, to make sure I have the right number of logs," he told IRIN. "The source of the timber cannot become my...