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ISS: The white pipe keeps burning

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Mandrax isn’t as profitable as heroin or meth but remains a lucrative trade for South African organised crime networks. On 14 September 2020, South Africa’s...

ISS: Heroin is now a major urban development challenge in Africa

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The rapid growth in the trade and consumption of heroin is having a direct and negative effect on urban politics and development in Africa....

ISS: Heroin use is shooting up in South Africa

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Research has found widespread and problematic use of heroin in South Africa’s small towns, big cities and rural areas. The illicit trade in the...

Another drug seizure for Combined Maritime Forces

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The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Ballarat has seized more than 900 kg of heroin during two boarding operations that took place in international...

ISS: Have SA’s ports and authorities been absorbed into the heroin...

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The volume of heroin being trafficked through Southern and East Africa's coastal countries has risen dramatically in recent years. This Southern Route...

Kenya heroin use on the up

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Heroin use is increasing in Kenya's coastal communities as international traffickers use them as a transit point for drugs from Afghanistan bound...

French ship Nivose seizes heroin off Somalia

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Within a month of joining Combined Task Force 150 (CTF150), the French frigate Nivose has seized 251 kilograms of heroin in the...

French Navy seizes drugs in Arabian Sea

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The French Navy's anti-submarine frigate Jean de Vienne seized 530 kg of heroin in the Arabian Sea this week, its second drug...

CTF-150 intercepts huge heroin consignment in Indian Ocean

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International assets from Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, part of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), teamed up in a counter drugs operation...

Major heroin bust at Mozambique border

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A pedestrian has been arrested at the South Africa/Mozambique border post in Mpumalanga for trying to pass into the country with 3.6kg...

Royal Navy leads international efforts to seize drugs worth £400M

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The UK and France commanded a multinational naval task force which has scored eight drugs busts, seizing 1.75 tonnes of narcotics worth...

Kenya extradites four men to U.S. on suspicion of heroin smuggling

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Four men charged with directing a major heroin trafficking ring have been extradited to the United States from Kenya, a law enforcement...

U.N. drug body warns of more heroin deaths on record Afghan...

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The U.N. drug body warned on Friday that record poppy output in Afghanistan will translate into a spike in heroin-induced deaths, with...

Australian navy seizes heroin worth $158 mln near east Africa

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An Australian Navy warship patrolling Indian Ocean waters seized heroin worth $158 million near east Africa this week, a navy official said...

East Africa seeks help to stem surge in heroin smuggling

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East African states worried by a surge in heroin smuggling via their Indian Ocean ports want to boost intelligence sharing and possibly...

Kenya charges 9 foreigners over 377-kg heroin haul

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Nine foreign nationals were charged in a Kenyan court on Thursday with trafficking the biggest ever single seizure of drugs at the...

Kenya seizes 341-kg heroin haul on ship in Mombasa

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Kenyan police on Tuesday seized 341.7 kg of heroin hidden in the diesel tank of a ship, the biggest ever single seizure...

South African police make record R2 billion heroin bust

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South African police have seized heroin worth more than two billion rand ($190 million) and arrested two Chinese nationals in the biggest...

Greece makes record heroin bust, arrests tanker crew

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Greek coastguards said on Sunday they had discovered a record two-tonne haul of heroin and arrested 11 crew from a Togo-flagged tanker...

Australian Navy ship HMAS Darwin seizes A$132 million of heroin off...

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The Royal Australian Navy warship HMAS Darwin on Tuesday seized 449 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value of A$132 million...