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Keywords : US Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA; al-Qaeda; Islamic Maghreb; AQIM; Hizbollah; UNODC; United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; drug traffic;
Abstract : Could West Africa follow Mexico's path into drugs and gang-fuelled violence? The question sounds alarmist, but has concerned international law-enforcement agencies in recent years, as countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Ghana, Benin and Nigeria have emerged as major transhipment points for the global trade in cocaine and heroin. With the business increasingly a destabilising force in West Africa, G8 ministers meeting in Deauville next week will discuss a new initiative to tackle it.
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