Tag: cocaine
Guinea-Bissau’s ex-navy chief pleads guilty in U.S. drug case
Guinea-Bissau's former navy chief, captured in a high-profile drug sting on the West African coast, has secretly pleaded guilty ahead of a...
Five plead guilty after cocaine ship is seized in Ghana waters
Four citizens of Guyana and one Ghanaian pleaded guilty on Friday to charges related to the seizure of a ship carrying tens...
Gambia jails eight foreigners for 50 years for drugs
A court in Gambia jailed eight foreign nationals for 50 years each for trying to traffic 2.1 tonnes of cocaine into Europe,...
W African cocaine use rises along smuggling routes
West Africans are consuming more of the drugs trafficked between South America and Europe, raising the spectre of rising crime and health...
Cwele embarrassed as wife sits in jail
Minister of State Security Siyabonga Cwele (pictured) has been embarrassed by the arrest of his wife on drug dealing charges. Sheryl Cwele...