In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the drug trade in West Africa rapidly expanded amid dramatic increases in US and European demand for cocaine, cannabis...
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East African drug trade refers to the sale and trafficking of illegal drugs that take place in East African countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia...
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country for Southeast Asia, West Africa and North America. Bangladesh also faces significant problems due to drug trade through the Indian Ocean and...
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The illegal drug trade, drug trafficking, or narcotrafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale...
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The illegal drug trade in Latin America concerns primarily the production and sale of cocaine and cannabis, including the export of these banned substances...
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The West Africa Commission on Drugs was launched by the Kofi Annan Foundation in 2014. Olusegun Obasanjo chaired the commission. Obasanjo urged strengthening...
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Illegal drug trade in Venezuela is the practice of illegal drug trading in Venezuela. Venezuela has been a path to the United States for cocaine originating...
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Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...
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Primeiro Comando da Capital (category Drug cartels)
of criminal gangs in Brazil Comando Vermelho Carandiru massacre Drug trade in West Africa Illegal drug trade List of criminal gangs in Brazil Karina Biondi...
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The drug economy in Lebanon refers to the expanding Lebanese involvement in both drug production and trade, a phenomenon substantiated by studies. The...
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"Latin American drug cartels find home in West Africa". CNN. Retrieved September 21, 2009. Felbab-Brown, Vanda. "The West African Drug Trade in the Context...
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The Council was an African-American organized crime syndicate in New York City that controlled the heroin trade in the Harlem area of the city during...
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and trade of psychoactive and other drugs has occurred since ancient times. Concurrently, authorities have often restricted drug possession and trade for...
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Ireland for work in the sex trade. Nigerian gangs are also involved in the cannabis trade, using contacts in South Africa to smuggle the drugs into Ireland...
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used for this drug trade. Drug trafficking affects the country in many ways. Drug abuse: Cultivation of illicit narcotic substances and drug trafficking...
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who were transported in the transatlantic slave trade were from Central Africa and West Africa and had been sold by West African slave traders to European...
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The history of West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, the Iron Age in Africa, the period of major polities flourishing, the colonial period...
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independent drug lords collude with each other, in order to improve their profits and dominate the illegal drug trade, they form an organization called a drug cartel...
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Narco-state (category Illegal drug trade)
institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade. The term was first used to describe Bolivia following the 1980 coup of...
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and dominate the illegal drug trade. Drug cartels form with the purpose of controlling the supply of the illegal drug trade and maintaining prices at...
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D'Angelo Barksdale (category Drug dealers of The Wire)
lieutenant in his drug dealing organization which controls most of the trade in West Baltimore. Stuck between the top and the bottom of the drug trade, he represents...
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The Islamic State's West Africa Province (ISWAP), officially Wilāyat Garb Ifrīqīyā (Arabic: ولاية غرب إفريقيا), meaning "West African Province", is a militant...
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Trade unions in South Africa has a history dating back to the 1880s. From the beginning unions could be viewed as a reflection of the racial disunity of...
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West Africa Coast Initiative is an attempt from the United Nations to combat the fight against drug trafficking and transnational organized crime in West...
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Marked for Death (category Films about the Drug Enforcement Administration)
vicious Jamaican drug dealers led by Screwface. Using a combination of fear and Obeah, a Jamaican syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin...
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Indian Ocean trade has been a key factor in East–West exchanges throughout history. Long-distance maritime trade by Austronesian trade ships and South...
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In this article, NGOs in West Africa will be divided into three categories: African national NGOs, African international NGOs, and non-African international...
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on Traffic in Opium and Other Dangerous Drugs, it was at South Africa's wish, expressed by Secretary to the Prime Minister J. C. Van Tyen in 1923, that...
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of the African Union. SADC has 27 legally binding protocols dealing with issues such as Defence, Development, Illicit Drug Trade, Free Trade and Movement...
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illegal drug trade. In the early 1990s, use of cocaine was increasingly noted among the young population of the nation. In the mid-1990s, the growing drug abuse...
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