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European Cocaine and Narcotics Problems Increase: Africa may be new 'drug hub
Africa is threatening to become the world's newest drug nightmare as Colombian narcotics barons scheme to turn the continent into a hub for shipping cocaine to Europe, the head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration said on Tuesday. In an exclusive interview, DEA administrator Karen Tandy said drug interdiction officials are also very worried about Africa's new role as a weigh-station for Europe-bound heroin from southwest Asia, particularly Afghanistan.
"Africa will be, in terms of a drug hot bed, one of our worst nightmares if we don't get ahead of that curve now," Tandy said on the sidelines of a major international anti-drug conference being held in Madrid by the DEA and Spain.
Lured by Europe's voracious appetite for cocaine, the strong value of the euro and lax law enforcement structures in poor countries of Africa, Latin American drug trafficking networks are "setting up shop" in nations such as Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast in the west of the continent and Kenya in the east, Tandy and other DEA officials said in the interview. Comment EU-Digest: The EU Commission should put this problem high on their agenda and the EU member states should increase Airport and Seaport drug controls for people, aircraft and ships coming from the Afican continent.
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