The value of the charcoal export trade from the Horn of Africa nation to the Middle East and elsewhere – though banned – is estimated at over $360 million per year.

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Many parts of the world, especially some in Africa and Southeast Asia, use charcoal-fed fires for heating, cooking, and industrial processes. For example, 9 percent of the energy consumed in Kenya ...

This has contributed to Uganda having one of the highest deforestation rates in the world. From 1990 to 2018, forest cover declined from 24 percent to just nine percent.

Adser invested 200 million CFA francs (about $350,000) to launch the project, then won backing from the World Bank, which buys the charcoal for 750 CFA francs per kilogramme.

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KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The machete-wielding men lodge themselves deep inside forests for weeks at a time, felling trees that will be incinerated into pieces of charcoal. Because they often ...

Backers hope green charcoal can save impoverished Chad from rampant deforestation. PHOTO: AFP. ... then won backing from the World Bank, which buys the charcoal for 750 CFA francs a kilogram.