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Africa's Narco State 1
Double assassinationI was drinking a coffee at Baiana when the Afro-pop music played by the local radio suddenly stopped. A frantic speaker was trying to report about a blast that had just killed a few...
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The Real Problem With Drugs
The amount of tax revenue collected in Colorado on legal marijuana sales in just the first two months of 2014 was $6.17 million.The primary problem with drugs is that they are illegal and/or...
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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 thenew drug hub. And drug money is used to fund...
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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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Africa The Next Legal Marijuana Market?
The amount of tax revenue collected in Colorado on legal marijuana sales in just the first two months of 2014 was $6.17 million.Enforcing marijuana laws costs the taxpayers an estimated $10 billion...
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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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The Sinaloa Cartel Business Model
Drugs is a business and if you take away the business 90% of the cartels would vanish. The intelligent business solution would be to regulate drugs, just like pharmaceuticals. Once regulated profits...
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Kofi Annan Backs Marijuana Decriminalisation In West Africa
West Africa Commission on Drugs calls for radical policy rethink to curb regional instability caused by narcotics tradeWest African governments must treat drugs as a public health issue and consider...
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Kenya Akasha Cartel
Akasha Brothers & CoOne evening last November, a handful of policemen in Kenya's sweltering port city of Mombasa were hand picked to help in the final stages of a U.S.-led drugs sting that spanned...
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The African Smack Track
In April and November last year, the Australian navy seized two consignments of heroin off the coast of Kenya, totalling 787 kg and worth about USD 278m. Another haul was made in July when Kenyan...
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Has The Failed War On Drugs Created An ISIS Reality In Mexico?
They behead people by the hundreds. They heap headless, handless bodies along roadsides as warnings to those who would resist their power. They havepenetrated the local, stateand national governments...
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$1.2 Billion of Cocaine Passes Through W. Africa Each Year
Guyanese ConnectionThe U.N. secretary-general says an estimated $1.2 billion worth of cocaine transits through West Africa each year. The council issued a statement Wednesday after Ban Ki-moon briefed...
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Turnover of Global Organized Crime: $870 Billion… a Year
“Transnational organized crime reaches into every region, and every country across the world. Stopping this transnational threat represents one of the international community’s greatest global...
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Narco Technology In West Africa
International global drug cartels have ploughed millions of dollars into a secret system letting key players keep in touch.Last night one insider with knowledge of the network claimed underworld bosses...
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Africa Could Be The Next South America
"Drugs from South Africa are moving via Mozambique and Kenya to the Far East," South Africa's representative on the UN International Narcotics Control Board, Dr Lochan Naidoo, said yesterday."For...
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West African Cocaine Routes To Europe
The lucrative cocaine trade from Latin America to Europe has furthered the globalization organized crime, causing an increase in violence and a deterioration of the rule of law in countries throughout...
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Cocaine Routes Are Wreaking Havoc In West Africa
Adeolu Ogunrombi At the end of June, the United Nations held its yearly International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Yury Fedotov, head of the UN's drugs crime office, marked the...
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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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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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