In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa new wheels often mean a used car from Japan.
In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, traffic sits queued up on Uhuru Highway leading to downtown Nairobi, Kenya. or Europe which are affordable to the growing middle class, but environmental activists and others complain that the second-hand vehicles, unable to meet stringent pollution tests elsewhere, are simply being dumped in the world's poorest continent.
Africa has become “the burial ground of vehicles that run on fossil fuel as the West turns to electric and newer cleaner technologies," said Philip Jakpor, an activist with the Nigerian branch of the group Friends of the Earth. “The West has refused to transfer technology or make the technology to transit to be cheap and accessible,” Jakpor said."Our governments have equally failed to invest in renewables and transition, so we will have this dumping for a long time.”
Taxes on used vehicles are “a key component” of the revenue agency's overall collection targets, he said. He added there is no evidence suggesting that stifferCar dealers in the Ugandan capital of Kampala told The Associated Press that demand for used vehicles remains solid because importers target certain vehicles that are much sought-after no matter how old they are. The Toyota RAV4 and Toyota Harrier are much-loved locally, for example.
The question of whether to impose import restrictions remains contentious despite wide recognition of the dangers of an unlimited flow of used vehicles into Africa, the continent least equipped to deal with climate-changing carbon emissions. Used cars from Japan are so common in Zimbabwe that the business may be one of the few still profitable in a country reeling from serious economic woes. Zimbabweans spent over $5 billion importing used cars between 2006 and 2016, and an average of 300 pass through Beitbridge, the main border crossing with South Africa, according to official figures.
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