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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9574

8 January 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
EU seeks to strengthen anti-drugs policy in West Africa

Brussels, 07/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - Member states decided on 20 December 2007 that the EU should push the issue of drugs up the political agenda of the relationship with West Africa. This region is, today, the main cocaine trafficking hub between Latin America and Europe. An estimated 240 tonnes of the drug passes through Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, a region which has been called the “white triangle”, every year. Given this worrying situation, ministers agreed that there...

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