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Is Narco-Culture Violence Coming to West Africa ?
A local shrine festooned with the body parts of Zeta hit-menThe question sounds alarmist, but has concerned international law-enforcement agencies in recent years, as countries such as...
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Short History Of The War On Drugs
In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counter narcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an...
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Guinea-Bissau Cocaine Central
Gen. antonio indjaiWhen the army ousted the president here just months before his term was to expire, a thirst for power by the officer corps did not fully explain the offensive. But a sizeable...
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South Africa Connection
Jackie SelebiSouth African police, co-operating with their Brazilian counterparts, are attempting to end a cocaine smuggle operation which has involved container loads of drugs, some of which were...
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The Balkans Connection
The transnational cocaine illicit trade has considerably expanded over the past generation and a notable trend that has emerged since the beginning of this century is the use of the Balkan countries as...
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Africa's Narco State 7
Colombian CementOrganized crime and cement often go together, but in Guinea Bissau this happens in an untraditional way. The cement importing and sales company, SOMEC, was salvaged by Colombian Juan...
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Cocaine The Allternative Economy of West Africa
West Africa’s perfect global positioning between South America and Europe, and its endemic corruption, poverty and disorganisation, have made it the new drug hub. And drug money is used to fund...
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Air Cocaine Afrique
In early 2008, an official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called "the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft...
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The Jihadists and Latin American Drug Cartels Pact
The radical Islamist groups who operate in the Sahara, the Sahel and in the West Africa regions finance their military activities with money from drug trafficking. They have negotiated agreements with...
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Shabu Drug of The Future In Africa
A new report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) warns that the production of methamphetamine is a "growing concern" for West Africa. The report, which addresses many forms of...
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War on Drugs has Failed, say Latin American leaders
A historic meeting of Latin America's leaders, to be attended by Barack Obama, will hear serving heads of state admit that the war on drugs has been a failure and that alternatives to prohibition must...
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The FARC
As the biggest irregular army in Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC) operates in various regions of the country in search of...
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African Drug Cartels Taking Over Latin American Drug Shipments
Troops from Senegal, Gambia, Guinea and Burkina Faso train with DEA FAST units July 2012 in SenegalFor years, West African cocaine traffickers have worked as mules for Latin American drug cartels...
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God, Race and Cocaine
Sheryl and Frank Get 20 YearsThe trial had the makings of a Hollywood thriller: religion, drugs, bling, working-class whites and SA’s black elite.Sheryl Cwele, wife of South Africa’s intelligence...
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Africa, Europe and the Cocaine Business
Today, drug trafficking is the most lucrative branch of organised crime, and within in it cocaine yields the most profits. In 2006, in Spain alone, the authorities seized 50 tonnes of cocaine. Twelve...
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Bankers To The Cartels
Globalization hit organized crime over the last decade and now is integral to its most profitable business -- the international narcotics traffic. Once a regional problem involving a customer base of a...
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Russian Africa Connection
Konstantin YaroshenkoThe alleged accomplice of Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempted drugs trafficking in the United States, has pleaded guilty in...
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Belize A Cautionary Tale For Africa
There are many similarities between a small sovereign nation like Belize and Guinea Bissau in West Africa. A growing number of organized crime which operates largely with impunity, is breeding...
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Golf Cartel
The Gulf Cartel is a criminal syndicate and drug trafficking organization in Mexico, and perhaps the oldest organized crime group in the country. It is currently based in Matamoros, Tamaulipas,...
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The Rastrojos
Diego RastrojoThe Rastrojos were born out of the powerful Norte del Valle drug trafficking organization and rose to become one of the most powerful transnational criminal syndicates in Colombia, but...
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