Drug Trade
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 11:46
This post was co-written by Sarah Kinosian and CIP intern Benjamin Fagan.
The following is a round-up of some of the top articles and news highlights from around the region over the past week.
US Policy
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 08:08
For the people of southern Libya Islamists are not the problem, but rather criminality and turf wars between the drug gangs.
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 00:00
Tambien fueron confiscados 5 kilos de heroina y 20 kilos de "cristal" en un reten militar ubicado en San Ignacio Uno, municipio de Pitiquito, Sonora.
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 13:08
Guinea Bissau is “close to becoming a failed state,” but not due to ethnic or religious violence, which has never existed in that small West African nation, argues Nobel Peace laureate and United Nations envoy José Manuel Ramos-Horta.
Thursday, October 3, 2013 - 08:36
In June, Algiers heavily beefed up security along its western frontier, after calling for Rabat’s help in combating illegal cross-border trade.
Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 08:03
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will share experiences in combating crimes related to drug trafficking.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 00:00
Drug enforcement experts say Venezuela's location on South America's Caribbean and Atlantic seaboards makes it a preferred route for planes and ships carrying Colombian cocaine to the United States and Europe.
Monday, September 23, 2013 - 00:00
Two National Guard sergeants and one lieutenant have been arrested for alleged involvement in the smuggling of 1.4 metric tons of cocaine to Paris on an Air France flight.
Friday, September 20, 2013 - 09:42
The United States is struggling to prosecute one of the prized catches in its global war on drugs, Guinea Bissau's former navy chief Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, because lawyers cannot find enough translators who speak his native Kriol.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - 07:58
Nigerien troops clashed with smugglers near the Libyan and Algerian borders last week, RFI reported.