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West Africa: The heaven of the narco-states
By African Bulletin on September 14, 2010
In his book entitled “Black Africa, white powder”, Christophe Champin, described the threat that drug trafficking poses to the States of West Africa.
Former correspondent for the French international Radio (RFI), he tells how the Colombian narco-traffickers and Venezuelans, their sub-contractors, have already plagued Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea-Conakry and, more recently, Mali that became the turning platforms of trafficking. But “in reality, all Africa is concerned. In South and Central America, organised crime drug organisations were able to destabilise several States. Some African countries could suffer the same fate. In 2007, the United Nations office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) launched the first alarm, attesting that West Africa is threatened, while some European anti-narcotic services are more than suspecting the Islamist movements as AQIM (Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb) to receive their cut in the shipment flow of cocaine across the Sahel. It must be recognised that criminal groups have no trouble finding candidates to transport cocaine to Europe, among a massive young generation of men and women ready to do anything to reach the other side of the fence. As they have no trouble finding ways to calm the annoying incumbent elite and law enforcement representatives in West Africa, and easily put oil into the working gears of this deadly business machine.