West Africa border taxes/charges real or not
Can somebody tell me if all of the taxes/charges I'm paying at borders are official or not.
So far I paid ten euro to get vehicle import papers entering Mauritania from Morocco and at the Diama border of Mauritania/Senegal I paid ten euro to police and another ten to customs before paying another two tens (or maybe ten and five) for the same caper on the Senegal side as well as 500 cfa more for something else .
I tried my best to get out of these but had the impression that there was no budging.
Does anybody know if these are correct payments, and more to the point, can I expect this as standard at West African borders (as in legitimate payments as opposed to chancers trying their luck)?
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