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Africa:
Should the UN Be Doing More to Fight Organized Crime?
UNIRIN, 12 August 2013
The globalization of organized crime poses a growing threat to fragile states that lack the ability to resist it, putting pressure on the UN to find solutions. Read more »
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Africa:
Tackling Drugs, Crime Must Be Part of Post-2015 Development Agenda - UN
UN News, 22 July 2013
The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today stressed the links between combating these two significant threats and achieving a sustainable world, during… Read more »
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Guinea Bissau:
Guinea Bissau Needs Help to Fight Drug Trafficking
ANGOP, 9 September 2013
The Special representative of the African Union (AU) in Guinea Bissau, Ovido Pequeno, on Tuesday appealed for international assistance for the country to fight drug trafficking. Read more »
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East Africa:
Human, Drug and Ivory Trafficking On the Rise - UN
AlertNet, 4 September 2013
More than 100,000 people were smuggled out of eastern Africa in 2012, heroin seizures are soaring and ivory poaching has risen to levels that could threaten local elephant… Read more »
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East Africa:
People Smuggling, Heroin Trade On the Rise in East Africa - UN Report
Sudan Tribune, 8 September 2013
A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says more than 100,000 people were smuggled out of East Africa last year, bringing in $15 million for criminal… Read more »
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Tanzania:
Drug War Needs Concerted, Co-Ordinated Efforts By All
Daily News, 18 August 2013
REPORTS on Tanzanians being implicated in illicit drug business abroad are quite disturbing, bearing in mind that plants that produce cocaine or heroin are not cultivated here… Read more »
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West Africa:
Stopping West African Drug Trafficking
African Arguments, 19 October 2012
Everyone working on drugs in Africa should read Neil Carrier and Gernot Klantschnig’s short but insightful new book, Africa and the War on Drugs. Read more »
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Mali:
UN Accuses Rebels of Ruling Through Drug Money
UN News, 10 October 2012
Radical Islamists who seized northern Mali earlier this year are maintaining their control through fear and drug money, imposing an extremist version of Muslim Sharia law and… Read more »