WEST AFRICA’S COCAINE WEB: LIBERIA’S GROWING EXPOSURE TO EUROPE’S DRUG PIPELINE

WEST AFRICA’S COCAINE WEB: LIBERIA’S GROWING EXPOSURE TO EUROPE’S DRUG PIPELINE

Multi-Tonne Seizures in Liberia and Ghana Highlight a Transnational Trade Stretching from Latin America to Europe MONROVIA, LIBERIA — West Africa’s cocaine crisis is increasingly revealing the region’s role in a sophisticated international drug economy linking Latin America, West Africa and European markets. Liberia’s seizure of nearly four tonnes of cocaine in Duazon, valued at approximately US$317 million, Ghana’s interception of almost 3.9 to…