Tag: drug trafficking

COVID-19 measures are making maritime routes the preferred target for drug smugglers. Seizures of large quantities of drugs such as cocaine, heroin and others at...

A US judge sentenced Ibrahim Akasha, once a member of Kenya’s Akasha drug trafficking organisation, to 23 years in prison after he pleaded guilty...

Africa stands as a transit point in a global drug trafficking network that funnels cocaine and other drugs into Europe. The drugs...

Guinea has arrested about 20 Nigerians and started checking Latin American workers here in a crackdown on a growing wave of drug...

A German, a Kenyan, a Nigerian and Ugandan national are being held by police in Uganda after being arrested at Entebbe international...

International criminal gangs and traffickers are exploiting large geographic blind spots where radar, satellite or other surveillance is minimal or nonexistent, the...

A seven West African nation alliance has been unveiled aimed at fighting growing threat posed by drug barons frequenting the Latin American-West...

West African drug trafficking is having a "very significant" impact on the region's economies but local responses have been contradictory as the...

Powering through Caribbean swell in a heavy gray patrol boat and toting new Kalashnikov guns, soldiers scouring the craggy coves of Paria...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved plans yesterday to erect a barrier along part of Israel's border with Egypt and install advanced surveillance...

The United Nations has agreed to hand over to Guinea-Bissau authorities a former navy chief accused of leading a failed 2008 coup...

Malian authorities have launched an investigation into whether a Boeing 727 cargo plane, thought to have been carrying a large amount of...