Africa Monitor Intelligence

Guinea-Bissau: Drug Trafficking Guiding Politics

In the weeks leading up to the Mar.10 legislative elections, Interpol and the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) pointed to an upsurge in drug trafficking in the country, resulting in clandestine off-shore off-loading of large cocaine shipments which, weighing about 800 kilos, would be intercepted and apprehended by the Judicial Police - put on notice by Interpol (AM 1195). READ MORE