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Police Officer Testifies In Timber Case

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Superintendent Omar Kolley, a Police Officer attached to Fraud and Commercial Unit at the Police Headquarters yesterday testified before Magistrate...

Timber and Furniture Managing Director Speaks Out

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The managing director of Timber and Furniture, Mr Osman Tasbasi, has said that over 150 Gambian youths are now working in his company. The...

CONGO: Financial crisis threatens timber jobs

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81650

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

BRAZZAVILLE Tuesday, November 25, 2008 (IRIN) - Guy-Blaise Bakala, a timber worker in Pointe-Noire in the south of the Republic of Congo, has been...

GHANA: Locals hail EU pact to end illegal logging

Saturday, November 08, 2008

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...

LIBERIA: Logging industry ready to restart

IRIN http://www.irinnews.org

Thursday, April 17, 2008

With mechanisms now in place to resume logging operations and three companies awarded tenders, revenues from the lucrative industry will soon start...

Timber exporter ordered to pay D44,350

The Daily Observer Newspaper

Monday, October 08, 2007

Principal Magistrate Moses Richards of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court on Friday, orderd one Dawda Bojang, a timber exporter to China, to pay the...

Youth Fined D1500 for Stealing Timber

The Point

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

A youth, Sulayman Camara, was lately convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of D1500 or an option to serve three months in jail. Camara had...