" By John James
BBC News, Bouake
An itinerant salesman in a baseball cap wanders the streets of Ivory Coast’s second city, Bouake, touting counterfeit perfumes.
A young boy in Bouake sellsA football shirt for Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka
Bouake is full of counterfeit and untaxed goods
“Here no-one can say to you: ‘No, that’s pirated’ or ‘You can’t sell that here,’” he tells me when I ask if he ever has any trouble from the authorities.
“If we were in the south of the country, you could complain that no customs tax has been paid for example, but when you’re in the New Forces-zone everything can come in and be sold,” he says.
The north of Ivory Coast - an area covering 60% of the country and a zone bigger than England and Wales - remains under the authority of an ex-rebel group, the New Forces, who split the country in two after a rebellion in 2002…"
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