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Narco-Corruption In Africa
In the last decade, West Africa emerged as a major transit hub for Latin American Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) transporting cocaine to Western Europe. Since that time, there has been cause for...
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Europe's Appetite for Cocaine
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 loaded with cocaine are...
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Africa's Narco State 6
Organized 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 Pablo Camacho, a...
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Africa's Narco State 4
A gangster's paradiseIn Bissau I met a former journalist who had been a correspondent for a Portuguese magazine, I ask him to show me where the local drug lords live. We meet at night, in front of my...
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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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Africa's Narco State 2
A confidential source close to the Interpol, who spoke in condition of anonymity, tells me that a private jet arrived in Bissau on Thursday, February 26, three days before the assassination of army...
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DEA Confidential Informants Operations In West Africa
A confidential informant is a person who provides information about criminal activity to law enforcement officers. The identities of these individuals are privileged in order to protect these...
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History Of The Mexican Cartels
During the early 1980s, the Medellin cartel ran the bulk of its cocaine into North America through Florida. It was nine-hundred-miles from Colombia to Florida. Planes would drop water-proof loads of...
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Guinea police seize 75 kg of cocaine on ship from Spain
Guinean police have seized 75 kg of cocaine at the Conakry port on a ship coming from Spain and destined to The Gambia, Guinea’s Police Spokesman Boubacar Kasse said Thursday.Kasse said the ship on...
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Benin's ex-presidential candidate arrested after 14 Million Euro cocaine...
29/10 - 18:00Sebastian Ajavon, a prominent businessman in Benin and who came in third in the last presidential elections was arrested on Friday on suspicion of dealing in drugs.Sources said Ajavon was...
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Lagos pastor arrested with 2 Keys Of H
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a Lagos-based pastor, Daniel Lanre Akintola, for being in possession heroin.Akintola, 43, was found with the 1.978kg of heroin...
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Belize City DEA busts tour guide with 22.5 pounds of H Heroin
Richard McDonald Tour GuideAn anti-drug operation in Belize City on Monday night yielded 22.5 pounds of heroin in a taxi, while police in Seine Bight village earlier that same day resulted in the...
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Ghana busts drug trafficking gang with heroin worth over $1 million
An alleged drug trafficking gang operating between East and West Africa has been busted at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, local media reported Thursday.The suspects, Friday Ogbonna Icheogu,...
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Belize 5 $ million H Bust
Tonight, the Anti Drug Unit has charged four Belizeans after officers made a major heroin bust in Corozal town last night. How large? 7News has confirmed that they intercepted more than 40 pounds of...
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Somalia Australian navy seizes $130 million of H
A crew from an Australian warship has seized more than 400kg of heroin from pirate smugglers off the Somalia coast during a daring raid.The drugs were found on a vessel when navy personnel from HMAS...
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Tanzania Canadian Warship Seize 130kg Heroin
Combined Maritime Forces Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Regina has seized over 130kg of high-grade heroin off the coast of Tanzania.The illicit narcotics were seized after HMCS Regina intercepted...
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Tangier 30 kg of cocaine and 62,000 E-pills seized
During a control operation, the customs services seized 62,660 psychotropic pills and 29 kg and 92 grams of cocaine hidden in the luggage of a Moroccan expatriate, it said, adding that the drug...
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Martinique Record 2.5 Tons of Cocaine
French customs officers have seized more than two and a half tons of cocaine off the French Caribbean island of Martinique in two separate anti-drug operations last week.In the first operation, which...
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Cameroon Seizes 100kg of Meth
On 13 October 2016, the Cameroonian customs seized a cargo of 100 kg of methamphetamines at the Douala International Airport, we learned from official sources. The cargo packaged in 20 boxes belonging...
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Africa Rehab Project
West Africa is now the primary transit point for cocaine and other drugs trafficked from South America to Europe and North America. Recent developments show that West African criminal networks are...
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