‘Criminals are converting chemicals into hard drugs in Nigeria’
, speaks on the U.S. Efforts to combat drug trafficking in Africa. Excerpts:
So look, in Africa, illicit drug production, trafficking, and consumption are linked to organized crime, illegal financial flows, corruption, and, increasingly, terrorist financing. Porous borders, poorly patrolled coastlines, weak institutions and enforcement regimes make Africa an attractive location for traffickers, and it’s something that we all need to work together to fight this transnational crime because it endangers us all.
And even in the Sahel, there is increasing concern that the porous borders there and the movement of groups, including illegal armed groups and transnational criminals, is enabling narcotics trafficking that may be indirectly funding some of the terrorist networks and activities, as traffickers pay for safe passage via under-governed spaces and through routes that have been exploited as well by terrorist entities.
As I noted earlier in Nigeria, there have been networks who have figured out how to make methamphetamine in new ways. I think we worry a lot that other countries in Africa are at risk of following that lead, and so it’s something we have to work on together.
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