From Times Online:Ghanaians go to the polls tomorrow to vote in a presidential run-off but many fear that the amount of cocaine trafficked through the country threatens to overshadow the result and the country’s democracy.
Ghana is said to be the staging post of the cocaine route from South American coca growers to European consumers. Drug enforcement officials estimate that as much as £1.3 billion of cocaine is trafficked through West Africa each year, roughly a quarter of all the cocaine imported into Europe, and much of it destined for Britain.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime talks of the region as being “under attack” and facing “a crisis of epic proportions”.
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My Comment: This is something that Africa has no need for right now .... narco traffickers and the corruption and destruction of society that they bring.