Insight
Tracing the invisible footprints in a smuggler’s life
“FIRST OF all, my real name is not to be disclosed in your story,” with a stern look and speaking in a heavy Kinyarwanda accent mixed with some French and Swahili, those were the first words of a ‘middle man’ in the trade of smuggling along Rwanda’s porous borders. I met the well built man in Gisenyi on Saturday evening as he sipped on expensive liquor.
Dressed in a brown Polo shirt and a blue pair of jeans, he completed the look with a golden chain around his neck and an expensive Bulvgari watch on his wrist.
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Long haul trucks are some of the transportation methods used by smugglers. Net photo