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Martin, E.B., 1993. Rhino poaching in Namibia from 1980 to 1990 and the illegal trade in the horn. Pachyderm 17: 39-51, figs. 1-5, tables 1-5
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Up to late 1987, most of the horns taken from poached rhinos in eastern Africa, over 90% originating in Tanzania, were sent to Burundi from where they were exported to Arabia, especially Dubai. From there, these horns were sent either to Sanaa in Yemen, or to eastern Asia (which will be described in a later section of this paper). According to confidential reports from businessmen in the Arabian Gulf, in 1985 and 1986, traders in Dubai were paying on average from $500 to $700 a kilo for the horn. By the time it reached Sanaa, dealers were paying about $800 to $ 1,000 a kilo for it.
At the sixth meeting of CITES in Canada in July 1987, Burundi was severely criticized by the member states for allowing this rhino horn trade to continue. Afterwards, the government of Burundi was attacked in some of the main newspapers and by other media both in the western world and in the third world. Finally, after a change in Burundi's government, in late 1987 the new government stopped effectively rhino horn exports. Once this major entrepot was closed down, most horn from eastern Africa was moved in the opposite direction to the coasts of Kenya. Somalia and Tanzania, to be loaded onto ships, or it was flown out from Addis Ababa and Khartoum.
Before the Burundi entrepot had been closed down [in 1987], much of the southern African horn was transported to places in Zambia, such as Lusaka and Mpulungu on Lake Tanganyika, from where it was taken to Burundi's capital, Bujumbura.
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