Drug Trafficking In West Africa

Author : David Edward Brown
Publisher : Army War College Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015089975414

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The Challenge of Drug Trafficking to Democratic Governance and Human Security in West Africa by David Edward Brown Pdf

International criminal networks mainly from Latin America and Africa -- some with links to terrorism -- are turning West Africa into a key global hub for the distribution, wholesaling, and production of illicit drugs. These groups represent an existential threat to democratic governance of already fragile states in the sub-region because they are using narco-corruption to stage coups d'état, hijack elections, and co-opt or buy political power. Besides a spike in drug-related crime, narcotics trafficking is also fraying West Africa's traditional social fabric and creating a public health crisis, with hundreds of thousands of new drug addicts. While the inflow of drug money may seem economically beneficial to West Africa in the short-term, investors will be less inclined to do business in the long-term if the sub-region is unstable. On net, drug trafficking and other illicit trade represent the most serious challenge to human security in the region since resource conflicts rocked several West African countries in the early 1990s. International aid to West Africa's "war on drugs" is only in an initial stage; progress will be have to be measured in decades or even generations, not years and also unfold in parallel with creating alternative sustainable livelihoods and addressing the longer-term challenges of human insecurity, poverty, and underdevelopment.

Author : Cristina Webster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1634858689

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Countering the Drug Trade in West Africa by Cristina Webster Pdf

In recent years, West Africa has played an increasing role in the global drug trade. In the early 2000s, drug traffickers searching for new routes and markets began shipping South American cocaine to Europe through West Africa. Criminal groups have now expanded their operations in the region to include heroin trafficking and methamphetamine production. While cocaine trafficked through West Africa typically reaches Europe rather than the United States, illicit activities surrounding the West African drug trade jeopardize U.S. goals in the region. The drug trade destabilizes governments and funds terrorist organizations, including Hezbollah and Al Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb. In 2011, the State Department launched the West Africa Cooperative Security Initiative to coordinate the U.S. response to these threats. This has been a positive start, but the Caucus believes more must be done. This book provides eight recommendations on how the United States can better assist our partners in West Africa.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cocaine
ISBN : PURD:32754081199949

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Confronting Drug Trafficking in West Africa by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on African Affairs Pdf

Author : Daurius Figueira
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781475961409

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Cocaine Trafficking in the Caribbean and West Africa in the Era of the Mexican Cartels by Daurius Figueira Pdf

This book deals with three major developments within the illicit drug trade of the Caribbean Basin that not only changed the nature of the illicit trade but has expanded the expanse of the trade as it now impacts Africa and Asia making it truly globalised. The three major developments dealt with are: the trafficking jump to West Africa by Caribbean Basin drug trafficking organisations, the rise to dominance of the Mexican cartels in the illicit trade of the Caribbean Basin and the evolution and nature of Caribbean gangland and its organic links to the illicit drug trade.

Author : Neil Carrier,Gernot Klantschnig
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848139695

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Africa and the War on Drugs by Neil Carrier,Gernot Klantschnig Pdf

Nigerian drug lords in UK prisons, khat-chewing Somali pirates hijacking Western ships, crystal meth-smoking gangs controlling South Africa's streets, and narco-traffickers corrupting the state in Guinea-Bissau: these are some of the vivid images surrounding drugs in Africa which have alarmed policymakers, academics and the general public in recent years. In this revealing and original book, the authors weave these aspects into a provocative argument about Africa's role in the global trade and control of drugs. In doing so, they show how foreign-inspired policies have failed to help African drug users but have strengthened the role of corrupt and brutal law enforcement officers, who are tasked with halting the export of heroin and cocaine to European and American consumer markets. A vital book on an overlooked front of the so-called war on drugs.

Author : Yahya H. Affinnih
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781685260941

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Why Has West Africa Become a Nexus for the International Traffickers? by Yahya H. Affinnih Pdf

This book is undoubtedly rich in different diverse sources and literature that are put together into a coherent whole instead of dispersed copious literature on the genesis of West African countries' integration into the world political economy and geopolitics of the drug trade. To the author's best knowledge, there is no similar book that has focused on the recent West Africa drug connection. The book is well-researched and documented. It fills the missing void in the discourse of West Africa drug trade arrangements. This book is one of its kind in the annals of West Africa's drug trade history. This thrust and the thesis of the book is to provide a plausible and sufficient explanation as to why West Africa has become international traffickers' transshipments and transits hubs and cocaine distribution and repackage centers for cocaine en route to Europe. This book is informative for a wide variety of readers such as students, social analysts from different social sciences disciplines, drug policy makers in West African countries, and elsewhere in the world. The book's subject matter is a global-wide problem that concerns all modern human societies worldwide. There are no human societies that are immune to the dynamics of the global drug trade industries that pose threat to human, national, and global security in its wake.

Author : G. Klantschnig,N. Carrier,C. Ambler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137321916

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Drugs in Africa by G. Klantschnig,N. Carrier,C. Ambler Pdf

This cutting-edge volume is the first to address the burgeoning interest in drugs and Africa among scholars, policymakers, and the general public. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading academics and practitioners to explore the use, trade, production, and control of mind-altering substances on the continent

Author : Arthur Kennedy
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432786695

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The Drug Invasion of West Africa by Arthur Kennedy Pdf

The Drug Invasion of West Africa is historical fiction that reads and feels like the truth. It is a gripping and imaginative exploration of what happens when drugs, politics, terrorism and international law collide on the shores of West Africa. When a US President seeking re-election and a British Prime Minister looking for his place in history decide to launch a Global War on Drugs with nothing off the table--their war will change Africa forever. The war will end with a sitting West African President under arrest for drug trafficking and Africa re-examining its place in the world. In the process, the UN, the International Criminal Court and racism all come under scrutiny. This is a bold and highly entertaining exploration of drugs and their impact on Africa and the world.

Author : U S Army War College
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1502463083

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The Challenge of Drug Trafficking to Democratic Governance and Human Security in by U S Army War College Pdf

West Africa is under attack from international criminal networks that are using the subregion as a key global hub for the distribution, wholesale, and increased production of illicit drugs. Most drug trade in West Africa involves cocaine sold in Europe, although heroin is also trafficked to the United States, and the subregion is becoming an export base for amphetamines and their precursors, mainly for East Asian markets and, increasingly, the United States. The most important of these criminal networks are drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) from Latin America-primarily from Colombia, Venezuela, and Mexico-partnering with West African criminals. These criminals, particularly Nigerians and Ghanaians, have been involved in the global drug trade for several decades, first with cannabis and later with heroin. The problem has worsened to the point that these networks represent an existential threat to the viability of already fragile states in West Africa as independent, rule of law based entities. As part of this new Latin America- West Africa criminal nexus, Guinea-Bissau is generally recognized as a narco-state where state-capture by traffickers has already occurred. There is also increasingly strong evidence linking terrorist organizations or state sponsors of terrorism to the West Africa drug trade, including Colombia's Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Hezbollah (allied with elements in the Lebanese diaspora), Venezuela, and Iran. These criminal and terrorist groups are also a threat to U.S. national security, because the illicit profits earned by Latin American drug cartels operating in West Africa strengthen the same crimi nal elements that traffic drugs to North America, and the same North African and Middle Eastern terrorist groups and nations that target the United States. The link to AQIM takes on particular significance in light of this terrorist organization's recent takeover of a vast sector of ungoverned space in northern Mali, along with Touareg allies. West Africa's geographical location between Latin America and Europe made it an ideal transit zone for exploitation by powerful drug cartels and terrorist organizations-much as the Caribbean and Central America had long suffered for being placed between South America's cocaine producers and North America's cocaine users. West Africa's primary operational allure to traffickers is not actually geography, however, but rather its low standards of governance, low levels of law enforcement capacity, and high rates of corruption. Latin American traffickers recently relocated a share of their wholesale distribution from the Western Hemisphere to West Africa, with the subregion moving from being merely a short-term transit point to becoming a storage and staging area for wholesale repackaging, re-routing and sometimes (re-)sale of drugs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789211481952

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Transnational Organized Crime in the West African Region by Anonim Pdf

Author : Liana Sun Wyler
Publisher : Silverwood Institute
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422316610

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Illegal Drug Trade in Africa by Liana Sun Wyler Pdf

In recent years Africa has increasingly become a locus for drug trafficking (DT), particularly of cocaine. Africa's emergence as a DT nexus has resulted from shifts in internat. DT patterns, incl. heightened European demand for cocaine, internat. counter-narcotics pressure driving drug traffickers away from traditional DT routes, and the allure of low levels of law enforce. and high rates of corruption in many African countries. Contents of this report: The Rising DT Threat; Implications for U.S. Interests; DT and Use Trends in Africa; Illicit Drug Use Trends in Africa; Focus on West Africa as a Global Cocaine Transit Hub; U.S. Policy; Multilateral and Regional Efforts to Combat DT in Africa; Congressional Role. Map and tables. A print on demand report.

Author : U. S. Army U.S. Army War College,Stephen K. Van Riper
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505563003

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Tackling Africa's First Narco-State by U. S. Army U.S. Army War College,Stephen K. Van Riper Pdf

The U.S., Europe and regional African players must tackle drug smuggling in West Africa to prevent that region from falling into chaos. Today, West Africa is a significant nexus for the illegal trafficking of oil, weapons, cigarettes, drugs and other commodities. The United States has labeled Guinea-Bissau Africa's first narco-state and it has become the epicenter of a region where Transnational Criminal Organizations are corrupting governments and societies at an alarming rate. Their nefarious efforts, and Guinea-Bissau's state failure, conflict with U.S. stated interests. Tackling corruption, neutralizing spoilers, and increasing the societies' culture of lawfulness are necessary steps to save West Africa. This will be challenging in Guinea-Bissau due to geography, culture, government structure, and a corrupted military. But with the right adjustments to resources, authorities and priorities, it can be done

Author : United States. Congress,United States Senate,Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983853046

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Confronting Drug Trafficking in West Africa by United States. Congress,United States Senate,Committee on Foreign Relations Pdf

Confronting drug trafficking in West Africa : hearing before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, June 23, 2009.

Author : David Edward Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 1584875682

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The Challenge of Drug Trafficking to Democratic Governance and Human Security in West Africa by David Edward Brown Pdf

International criminal networks mainly from Latin America and Africa -- some with links to terrorism -- are turning West Africa into a key global hub for the distribution, wholesaling, and production of illicit drugs. These groups represent an existential threat to democratic governance of already fragile states in the sub-region because they are using narco-corruption to stage coups d'état, hijack elections, and co-opt or buy political power. Besides a spike in drug-related crime, narcotics trafficking is also fraying West Africa's traditional social fabric and creating a public health crisis, with hundreds of thousands of new drug addicts. While the inflow of drug money may seem economically beneficial to West Africa in the short-term, investors will be less inclined to do business in the long-term if the sub-region is unstable. On net, drug trafficking and other illicit trade represent the most serious challenge to human security in the region since resource conflicts rocked several West African countries in the early 1990s. International aid to West Africa's "war on drugs" is only in an initial stage; progress will be have to be measured in decades or even generations, not years and also unfold in parallel with creating alternative sustainable livelihoods and addressing the longer-term challenges of human insecurity, poverty, and underdevelopment.

Author : United States Senate,Committee on Foreign Relations (senate),United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1691156329

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Confronting Drug Trafficking in West Africa by United States Senate,Committee on Foreign Relations (senate),United States. Congress Pdf

Confronting drug trafficking in West Africa: hearing before the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session, June 23, 2009.