2017-04-24 16:57
By day, Guinea-Bissau looks like the impoverished country it is. Most people cannot afford a bus fare, never mind a four-wheel drive. There is no mains electricity. Water supplies are restri… Read More
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2016-12-29 15:56
Spanish and Moroccan police seized 5,677 pounds of cocaine and arrested 24 suspects in what officials said was a blow against one of the main drug-trafficking organisations operating in Euro… Read More
2016-11-27 16:36
Organised crime in West Africa in its contemporary form is generally perceived to have emerged in the 1970s, with the oil price rises of that decade, the delinking of the dollar fr… Read More
2016-11-19 21:21
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… Read More
2016-11-19 21:20
Lessons from Latin America and the CaribbeanThe dollar value of cocaine trafficked through West Africa has risen rapidly and surpassed all other illicit commodities smuggled in the subregion… Read More
2016-11-19 21:17
The Sinaloa Cartel and Los Zetas are expanding their operations and gaining territory in Asia and Africa, Their goal is to control shipping ports in Asia and Africa which will allow them to… Read More
2016-11-16 21:19
How The Drug Money Flows Into The financial SystemTwo boats pull into the docks. The first boat is full of a white agricultural product grown in Latin America called sugar. The owner of… Read More
2016-11-12 17:02
Until February 2014 when he was arrested, Ali Khatib Haji alias Shkuba, 46, was the most wanted and most powerful drug kingpin in Tanzania.A man with deep pockets who was credited with leadi… Read More
2016-11-12 16:09
A recent report has highlighted the increasing role of the East African nation Mozambique in the international drug trade, adding weight to warnings that the influence of Latin American crim… Read More
2016-11-12 15:16
Nigerian drug agents arrested four Mexicans who were allegedly helping build a "super-lab" capable of producing billions of dollars' worth of methamphetamine, the National Drug Law Enforceme… Read More
2016-11-11 21:58
Mr UntouchableEric ''Mika'' Walter Amegan In 2007, Nouakchott, Mauritania the police intercepted a minibus. On board a cargo of more than 760 kilograms of cocaine. In the vehi… Read More
2016-11-11 21:54
A new report provides insight into how traffickers move cocaine to the lucrative European market, including the key trafficking routes and smuggling techniques criminal groups have adopted t… Read More
2016-11-11 19:01
Lessons from Latin America and the CaribbeanThe dollar value of cocaine trafficked through West Africa has risen rapidly and surpassed all other illicit commodities smuggled in the subregion… Read More
2016-11-11 17:30
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 p… Read More
2016-11-11 17:28
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 f… Read More
2016-11-11 17:26
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 Reg… Read More
2016-11-11 17:25
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 d… Read More
2016-11-11 17:24
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 operati… Read More
2016-11-09 23:09
According to an article by the US publication Business Insider a senior Mexican diplomat says America pretty much invited the Sinaloa Drug Cartel across the border.Leake… Read More
2016-11-09 22:46
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… Read More
2016-11-08 18:18
The son of a Scottish aristocrat has been charged in Kenya with trafficking nearly 100kg of cocaine in one of the country’s biggest drugs seizures in recent years.Jack Marrian, 30, who… Read More
2016-11-08 18:09
A coordinated network assault by state security forces on Sunday led to the seizure of one ton of cocaine at Nouadhibou sea port, reports say.Army coast guards, military police and pol… Read More
2016-11-06 19:25
As the biggest irregular army in Colombia, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - FARC) operates in various regions of the country in searc… Read More
2016-11-06 18:39
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 n… Read More
2016-11-06 18:39
In April and November last year, the Australian navy seized two consignments of heroin off the coast of Kenya, totalling 787 kg and worth about USD 278m. Another haul was made in July when K… Read More
2016-11-05 01:06
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 operati… Read More
2016-11-05 00:38
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 d… Read More
2016-11-05 00:23
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 Reg… Read More
2016-11-05 00:16
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 f… Read More
2016-11-04 23:58
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 Ogbon… Read More
2016-11-04 23:43
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 i… Read More
2016-11-04 23:23
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested a Lagos-based pastor, Daniel Lanre Akintola, for being in possession of hard drug which tested positive for heroin.Aki… Read More
2016-11-04 23:02
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… Read More
2016-11-04 22:48
Guinean police have seized 75 kg of cocaine at the Conakry port on a ship coming from Spain and destined to Gambia, Guinea’s Police Spokesman Boubacar Kasse said Thursday.Kasse said th… Read More
2016-02-07 11:02
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… Read More
2016-01-24 07:52
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 thes… Read More
2015-07-20 12:14
They behead people by the hundreds. They heap headless, handless bodies along roadsides as warnings to those who would resist their power. They have penetrated the local, state and nat… Read More
2015-07-15 01:07
In April and November last year, the Australian navy seized two consignments of heroin off the coast of Kenya, totalling 787 kg and worth about USD 278m. Another haul was made in July when K… Read More
2015-07-14 22:19
Akasha Brothers & CoOne evening last November, a handful of policemen in Kenya's sweltering port city of Mombasa were hand picked to help in the final stages of a U.S.-led drugs sting th… Read More
2015-06-20 01:00
West Africa Commission on Drugs calls for radical policy rethink to curb regional instability caused by narcotics tradeWest African governments must treat drugs as a public health issue and… Read More
2015-01-04 00:45
Drugs is a business and if you take away the business 90% of the cartels would vanish. The intelligent business solution would be to regulate drugs, just like pharmaceuticals. Once regulated… Read More
2014-12-18 01:01
2014-06-08 02:07
The amount of tax revenue collected in Colorado on legal marijuana sales in just the first two months of 2014 was $6.17 million.Enforcing marijuana laws costs the taxpayers an estimated $10… Read More
2014-06-02 21:20
There are many similarities between a small sovereign nation like Belize and Guinea Bissau in West Africa. A growing number of organized crime which operates largely… Read More
2014-05-28 21:44
The amount of tax revenue collected in Colorado on legal marijuana sales in just the first two months of 2014 was $6.17 million.The primary problem with drugs is that they are illegal a… Read More
2014-05-26 20:31
West Africa’s perfect global positioning between South America and Europe, and its endemic corruption, poverty and disorganisation, have made it the new drug hub. And drug money is use… Read More
2014-05-26 16:21
Mexico's Drug War: Balkanization Leads to Regional ChallengesThis Security Weekly assesses the most significant cartel-related developments of the first quarter of 2013 and provides updated… Read More
2014-05-26 16:17
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… Read More
2014-05-22 21:45
Hezbollah, al Qaida and the Lebanese ConnectionThe night-life in Bissau is usually so boring that sleeping is probably more exciting. After spending too many nights in my room I he… Read More
2014-05-19 19:04
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… Read More
2014-05-04 18:45
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 k… Read More
2014-05-04 18:43
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 C… Read More
2014-05-02 15:30
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… Read More
2014-04-24 17:57
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 ha… Read More
2014-04-24 13:11
There’s a disparity between the way we choose what we buy in stores, and what we buy on the streets. As a result, one of the world’s most deprived areas is being plunged further… Read More
2014-04-24 13:09
Adeolu Ogunrombi At the end of June, the United Nations held its yearly International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Yury Fedotov, head of the UN's drugs crime office… Read More
2014-04-24 13:09
The lucrative cocaine trade from Latin America to Europe has furthered the globalization organized crime, causing an increase in violence and a deterioration of the rule of law in countries… Read More
2014-04-24 13:08
"Drugs from South Africa are moving via Mozambique and Kenya to the Far East," South Africa's representative on the UN International Narcotics Control Board, Dr Lochan Naidoo, said yesterday… Read More
2014-04-24 12:12
International global drug cartels have ploughed millions of dollars into a secret system letting key players keep in touch.Last night one insider with knowledge of the network claimed u… Read More
2014-04-24 12:11
“Transnational organized crime reaches into every region, and every country across the world. Stopping this transnational threat represents one of the international community&rsqu&hell…Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It was a day before the scheduled return of Haiti’s exiled president Jean Betrand Aristide, and it was clear that the October 30, 1993 deadline for a return to democratic rule in the w… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Guyanese ConnectionThe U.N. secretary-general says an estimated $1.2 billion worth of cocaine transits through West Africa each year. The council issued a statement Wednesday after Ban Ki-mo… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Illegal drugs, including cocaine and heroin, are responsible for an estimated 10,000-20,000 American deaths per year. Prescription drugs taken as prescribed in hospitals are the fo… Read More
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