Africa is often the forgotten continent for things like drug trafficking, but just look around the news, the African continent plays a critical role in the global illicit drug market – and its growing – And no more so than in East and Southern Africa. As global trade has exploded, African organized criminal networks have established relationships with other criminal organizations around the world from the PCC in Brazil to the Comancheros Bikie Gang in New Zealand. Over the course of a few years, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime have produced three papers covering the major illicit drug markets in the region - cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamime (crystal meth). These papers cover the movement and transiting of drugs but also the domestic markets - and the findings are that you find drugs everywhere, in coastal cities and rural villages.In this episode we talk about all three illicit drugs, the markets, those involved and the users themselves. Speaker(s):<a href="https://globalinitiative.net/profile/jason-leigh/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jason Eligh</a>, Senior Expert, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crimex2 Anonyomous researchers (Kenya, South Africa)Happy Assan, Drug Researcher, TanzaniaAdditional Reading:(GI Paper) A Synthetic Age: The Evolution of Methamphetamine Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa - <a href="https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/meth-africa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>(GI Paper) A Powder Storm: The cocaine markets of East and southern Africa - <a href="https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/cocaine-east-southern-africa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>(GI Paper) A Shallow Flood: The Diffusion of Heroin in Eastern and Southern Africa - <a href="https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/heroin-east-southern-africa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>(Website) Drug Markets in Eastern and Southern Africa - <a href="https://esa.globalinitiative.net/drugs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>News Articles:Record Bust For Mozambique Bound Drugs - <a href="https://panafricanvisions.com/2021/10/record-bust-for-mozambique-bound-drugs/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>Mozambican arrested in Brazil with 5 kg of cocaine hidden in ‘7-day candles’ - <a href="https://clubofmozambique.com/news/mozambican-arrested-in-brazil-with-5-kg-of-cocaine-hidden-in-7-day-candles-watch-203929/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>BBC News - Fuminho: One of Brazil's most wanted criminals arrested in Mozambique - <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-52288303" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>Insight Crime - Cocaine Trade Grows in East and Southern Africa - <a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/cocaine-trade-east-southern-africa/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>Insight Crime - Marcos Willians Herbas Camacho, alias ‘Marcola’ - <a href="https://insightcrime.org/brazil-organized-crime-news/marcos-willians-herbas-camacho-marcola/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>National commander of Comancheros jailed for conspiring to import 600kg of meth - <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/130632338/national-commander-of-comancheros-jailed-for-conspiring-to-import-600kg-of-meth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>NZ Herald - Comancheros meth trial: Gang leader Seiana Fakaosilea, co-defendants sentenced - <a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/comancheros-meth-trial-gang-leader-seiana-fakaosilea-co-defendants-sentenced/VGLCU62DV5CGJNIXBUF5QR7TME/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>SunStar - CUSTOMS CLARK SEIZES P11.27M WORTH OF METH - <a href="https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1949622/pampanga/local-news/customs-clark-seizes-p1127m-worth-of-meth" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>Daily Maverick - Tik and cocaine worth billions found in consignments of apples, pears and oranges exported from SA to&nbsp;India - <a href="https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-16-tik-and-cocaine-worth-r4-3bn-found-in-consignments-of-apples-pears-and-oranges-exported-from-sa-to-india/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>BBC News - Abdul Nsembo and Shamim Mwasha: Tanzania popular fashion blogger and husband get life imprisonment for drug trafficking - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-56592929" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>AfricaPress - Shamim Mwasha, Husband Sentenced to Life in Prison - <a href="https://www.africa-press.net/tanzania/community/shamim-mwasha-husband-sentenced-to-life-in-prison" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Link</a>

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