DRUG TRAFFICKERS PARADISE

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DRUG TRAFFICKERS PARADISE

Europe's appetite for cocaine can devastate West Africa. The former Gold Coast (Ghana) is fast becoming Coke Coast. Severity of the problem threatens the security of Ghana where weak and corrupt governments are vulnerable to the corrosive influence of drug money. West Africa is a trafficker's paradise, partly because of its geographical position as a link between Europe and South America, partly because its governments are unable and unwilling to mount effective security exercises .The cocaine trade from West Africa is relatively new, the European authorities are not looking for it with the same level of vigilance that applies to goods from South America or the Caribbean. Meanwhile this burgeoning trade is a disaster for West Africa. It perverts the local economies. In Ghana, the value of the drug trade may be as high as the country's entire national income. It is a gigantic problem because of the bad name it is giving Ghana internationally, and the damage it threatens to do to our society particularly the economy and the health system.

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News & Politics

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• Global
• Report
• drug
• trafficking
• Coke
• Coast
• Gold
• Drug
• money
• Ghana