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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report on trafficking in medical products in Central Africa, developed in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Commission of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC), sheds new light on the scale and characteristics of this phenomenon in the region.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Monday that Washington will suspend South Africa and Rwanda from its flagship duty-free trade program for sub-Saharan Africa, a move that would hit exports including South African auto parts, wine and Rwandan coffee.

The first leg of my South African Garden Route journey through the Eastern Cape, as described in the last edition, had already revealed the country’s remarkable diversity, but the road ahead promised an entirely different chapter. The journey with Travel Senses, my host South African DMC, now continued through the Western Cape, where forests, lagoons,…