Africa can boast of numerous important commodities, yet the general population of the nations in it are known as some of the poorest in the world.
Incidents of sports hunting and poaching have made the continent export goods outside Africa whiles most indigenes do not reap the benefit or the profit gained from the materials.
Currently, there are a lot of products illegally taken outside Africa and sold for for big bucks.
Minerals
Cassiritte, a material used to produce tin in Africa recorded the largest illegally exported item by size according to a document report.
The Democratic Republic of Congo in 2013 recorded an estimated 7000 tons of cassiterite illegally taken which the estimated value is $29 million Dollars.
South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Tanzania suffer more from the minerals taken.
Fisheries
The tunas, lobsters, shrimps, mackerels on your plates may have made its way to you from Africa.
Woefully, African fishermen are given low amount of the $2.5 billion profit accumulate from outside the fishery salesmen and women.
Oil
Africa continues to drilling of oil yet illegal trading of oil is torturing the continent close to $100 billion per year.
This high cost of profit is being imputed to illicit refineries, vandalization of pipelines and exploitation.
Libya, Nigeria, and South Sudan are being flogged the most.
Wildlife
These are mostly poached object such as elephant tusks and rhinoceroses horns.
Between $7 million and $23 billion worth of animal parts are being sold worldwide according to the United Nation Environment Programme and World Economic Forum.
Most hunts occur in South Africa and Tanzania, it is clear to see who is losing out on the money earned.
Forestry
Trees from Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana and Republic of Congo are earning $13 billion outside the continent
Not only are the lands ravaged, the people of those countries are also drowning in poverty.