Destructive statist drugs war turns to Africa

Subject: Destructive statist drugs war turns to Africa Mon Jul 23, 2012 3:20 am

IN A significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counter-narcotics police in Ghana and plans similar units in Nigeria and Kenya.

It is part of an effort to combat the Latin American trafficking organisations that are increasingly using Africa to smuggle cocaine into Europe.

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The growing US involvement in Africa follows an earlier effort in Central America.

In both regions, the US is responding to fears that crackdowns in more direct staging points for smuggling have prompted traffickers to move into smaller and weakly governed states.
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In May, William Brownfield, the Assistant Secretary of State for international narcotics and law enforcement, travelled to Ghana and Liberia to put the finishing touches on a west Africa ''co-operatives security initiative'', which will try to replicate across 15 nations the steps taken in Central America and Mexico.

But Bruce Bagley, a professor at the University of Miami, said what had happened in west Africa over the past few years was the latest example of the ''whack-a-mole'' problem, in which making trafficking more difficult in one place simply shifts it to another.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/drugs-fight-turns-to-africa-20120722-22i52.html#ixzz21Qazlqv2

Destructive statist drugs war turns to Africa

Destructive statist drugs war turns to Africa

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