Nope, it's accurate. One booming industry is kidnapping [1]. I worked on a technology that would have helped with that problem in one of those African states.

Nope, it's accurate. One booming industry is kidnapping [1]. I worked on a technology that would have helped with that problem in one of those African states. We made the sale, delivered our equipment, and prepared to install and activate the first phase. The equipment vanished and the negotiations stalled on the next phase. It seems half the government was interested in preventing kidnappings, while the other half was perpetrating them. Furthermore, the budgeting process involved some kind of internal process where someone gets approval to spend some money, the money is issued, but it gets "taxed" on its way to the vendor until nothing is left. Total loss for us. 1. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mapping-kidnappings-in-nigeria/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mapping-kidnappings-in-... ps - Our teams visiting in country needed armed escorts, for obvious reasons.