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2/4/08

AP: Drugs Flowing to Europe Via West Africa - by Dulue Mbachu

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Drugs Flowing to Europe Via West Africa - by Dulue Mbachu

Since 2004, seizures of Europe-bound cocaine in Africa have risen fivefold, reaching a record 5.7 metric tons in the first nine months of last year, according to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, or UNODC. Virtually all the drugs seized in Africa in the first nine months of 2007 came from West Africa, according to a U.N. report on drug trafficking. They include 2.4 metric tons seized in Senegal in June, 1.5 metric tons taken in Mauritania between May and August, and smaller quantities in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, Benin and Guinea.

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