West Africa: Relation Between Drugs, Organized Crime, Terrorism in Sahel Region Is 'Obvious,' Says an Expert

Boumerdes — The world is today quite aware of the obvious relation between drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorist groups in the region of the Sahel (African), underlined Tuesday in Boumerdes expert and international consultant M'hand Berkouk.

"Morocco, which is the producer and exporter of drugs, has become a center of instability and insecurity for the States of the Arab Maghreb," said Berkouk, also lecturer in several international universities, in a paper on "the Maghreb security environment, geostrategic study," read as part of the Summer university of the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Boumerdes.

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