East Africa: Drug Rings Defy the Law As 'Mr President' Flees

16 August 2004
editorial

Nairobi — It was in March: The police raid was swift. The target, the Nairobi home of a Cameroonian described as an international drug kingpin operating in the East Africa region. The officers arrested the drug lord's Kenyan girlfriend, impounded eight Mercedes Benz vehicles and held some foreign associates he was hosting. But the man slippery as and eel, had escaped a week earlier to Dubai.

At the same time, some Russians deported a while ago after they were linked to narcotic trade, are back in the country and plying their trade. Why are these international drug traffickers proving invincible?

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