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Accra Connection
Last April, thousands of miles from Baltimore in the West African country of Ghana, a man known as “Wagba” got on the phone and mediated a Baltimore heroin-dealing dispute.Nana Boateng, who supplied...
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Ghana’s Airport Security Chief Caught in DEA Sting
The head of security at Ghana's main international airport has been arrested in the US on charges of heroin trafficking, in the latest sign of a growing narcotics trade in west Africa. All of their...
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The War On Drugs- Crossing The Line
When institutions tasked with protecting our rights and preventing corruption do not act with integrity, it is citizens that ultimately suffer.Police corruption extends to protecting, working for,...
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DEA Boosts Fight Against West African Narco-Cartels
U.S. authorities are stepping up counter-narcotics operations in West Africa, a key route for Latin American cocaine bound for Europe and allegedly a major source of funds for al-Qaida groups spreading...
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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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Z-40 Zetas Capo Busted With $2 Million In Cash
The capture of the Zetas leader Miguel Treviño, alias Z-40, may mean more violence in the near term as his minions fight for the most coveted brand name in Mexico's underworld and his rivals move into...
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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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West Africans Dominate Swiss Cocaine Trade
A number of major drug busts in Switzerland have underlined the growing influence of West Africans in the cocaine trafficking trade and the methods used. In February, a Lausanne court jailed two...
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Guinea-Bissau Bubo Na Tchuto Arrested in DEA Sting
Public television in theCape Verde Islands says U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin...
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Is The U.S. Working With The Sinaloa Cartel?
According to an article by the US publication Business Insider a senior Mexican diplomat says America pretty much invited the Sinaloa Drug Cartel across the border.Leaked emails from the private U.S....
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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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A Drug Family in the Winner’s Circle
Just three years ago, Jose Trevino Morales was working as a bricklayer in Texas, and his wife, Zulema Flores Trevino, was an office clerk for a staffing company.They lived in Balch Springs, Texas,...
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Spy Boss's Wife Ran Cocaine Ring
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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Mexico's Drug War
Mexico's Drug War: Balkanization Leads to Regional ChallengesThis Security Weekly assesses the most significant cartel-related developments of the first quarter of 2013 and provides updated profiles of...
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Crack Epidemic Hits West Africa
Local consumption of crack or‘Pedra’ as it is called has rocketed in recent years since the country became a major hub for coke on its way heading to Europe from S. America, and crack is highly...
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Guyana Connection
Ricardo ‘Fatman’ RodriguesThe recent seizure of liquid cocaine bound for Africa shows that Guyana continues to be an important transit country for cocaine destined for the United States, Canada, the...
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Europe's Appetite for Cocaine Endangering Africa
A Boeing aircraft from Venezuela landed on an improvised landing strip in Mali’s Gao region, with ten tones of cocaine on board. News reports about aircraft in West Africa filled up with cocaine are...
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Pura Calma Rehab Africa Project
Get Involved, Make A DifferenceWest Africa has only recently experienced an increase in the domestic consumption of narcotics among its populations. However according to UN statistics 37,000 people in...
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European Drug Use is Fueling Addiction in West Africa
There’s a disparity between the way we choose what we buy in stores, and what we buy on the streets. As a result, one of the world’s most deprived areas is being plunged further into violence crime and...
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Crystal Meth Labs in West Africa On The Rise
May evening last year, as a tropical downpour lashed Lagos, Nigerian drug enforcement agents received the tip off that would lead to a game-changing bust. Hours earlier, Baez Benitez Milan,aka Fabian...
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