All of Africa

Since the price for Ivory went up from 15£ to 25£ per kg, more poachers seems to tempted since they would be able to earn 1.500£ for two tusks. Only in Kenya the number of death elephants without tusks has doubled from 2007 to 2008 to almost a 100. The reason is an international agreement to sell of stockpiled, which makes it easier to sell ivory under this agreement using fake labels.

According to a report from the UN, Africa shows the biggest growth bin mobile telecommunication systems. This is shown in the huge amount of transmission masts, where around 100.000 are added every year. But also from the number of mobile subscriptions, reaching 4.1 bn in 2008, up from 1 bn in 2002. In 2000, one out of 50 Africans was owing a cellphone number, today the percentage has reached 28%. This is related also to a huge extend to the bad infrastructure on fixed lines, so that the cellphone is regarded as a flexible alternative. The other reason for the huge growth are additional services like Vodafones money transfer service M-Pesa in Each Africa, that started in 2007, but has reached in Kenya only already 5 Mill. Users.