Cutting through: Formalising Cameroon’s huge domestic timber market

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (14 November, 2012) Shirtless and muscular, his skin flecked with specks of sawdust, 58 year-old Dieudonné Ngomo* wields his chainsaw with casual ease. Guided by nothing but oily black lines drawn along the fallen tree at his feet, he expertly cuts a straight plank from the trunk. “I won’t lie to you – [...]