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EAST AFRICA - A NEW HUB FOR HEROIN TRAFFICKING


VIENNA, SWITZERLAND - Released late on Friday, the report said there had been two major heroin seizures during the first quarter of 2011, each of more than 100 kg (220 pounds), reported by Kenya and Tanzania.
The emergence of Africa as a heroin trafficking hub is almost certainly due to ongoing corruption, widespread poverty and limited law enforcement capacity as well as increased pressure on traditional drug trafficking routes.
This provided an incentive to reopen the African route to Europe that had been very active in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • Traffickers are exploiting poorly-staffed seaports and airports across East Africa and the lower cost and ease of transporting drugs through the continent makes the extra distance worthwhile
  • The increasing amounts of heroin reaching Africa appear to be fueling drug use, with authorities reporting more cases. However, drug abuse estimates are likely to be unrealistically low due to a lack of comprehensive data.
  • Drug traffickers faced with restrictions to transit routes through Asia and the Middle East are turning to eastern Africa, driving up instability and increasing substance abuse, a United Nations report said.
  • The UN's Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said Africa's emergence as an important heroin transport route in 2009 was of serious concern in a region ill-equipped to fight trafficking or care for people addicted to drugs.
Drug seizures and the arrest of traffickers indicated that African drug traffickers’ particularly West African networks are increasingly transporting Afghan heroin from Pakistan into East Africa for onward shipment to Europe and elsewhere.
Afghanistan is the world's biggest producer of opium, the base ingredient of heroin, and over 40 per cent of this flowed into Pakistan in 2009 before being transported worldwide as part of the $68 billion (Dh249.7 billion) global opiate market.
Source: Agency
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