Africa Can Learn Maritime Lessons From Its Small Island States

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On 24 January, the French frigate Nivôse seized 444 kg of methamphetamines and heroin worth more than €40 million from a dhow in the Mozambique Channel. This is the latest demonstration of how transnational organised crime is spreading in the Western Indian Ocean.

The implications for safety and security along Africa's long and largely unmonitored coastline are serious. Much of the heroin trafficked between Afghanistan and Europe for example runs across the Indian Ocean along the infamous southern route.

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