Guinea-Bissau
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 Guinea-Bissau    | |
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| Location | West Africa, Africa |
| Leader | President of Guinea-Bissau |
| Type |  nation state |
| Member of | African Union, La Francophonie, Organisation of African Unity, UN |
| Portuguese ex-colony "narco-state" in West Africa. | |
Guinea-Bissau is a small nation state in West Africa. The UN termed it a "narco-state" due to the importance of it role as a hub for illegal cocaine smuggling.[1]
Cocaine transit hub
On March 9, Guinea-Bissau recorded its biggest cocaine bust yet after discovering almost 800 kilograms (1,764 pounds) of the narcotic in a fish truck bound for Mali. Four people were arrested, including an adviser to the speaker of Niger’s national assembly who’s suspected of working for a businessman with links to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, known by its acronym AQIM, according to Domingos Correia, deputy national director of the judicial police.[2]
In September 2019, this record was broken again by a 1.8 tonne seizure.[3]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:The Curious Case of the Freedom Flotilla | blog post | 28 April 2024 | Craig Murray | Craig Murray: "I am therefore entirely perplexed that the organisers went with Guinea Bissau as the flag state rather than a state likely to stand up to Israel and the US. Of course it failed. Is the problem incompetence, or is it again security service influence?" |
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References
- ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/did-drug-traffickers-just-try-seize-control-west-african-country
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-13/record-cocaine-busts-mark-west-africa-s-comeback-as-transit-hub
- ↑ https://www.africanews.com/2019/09/04/arrests-in-guinea-bissau-over-18-tonnes-cocaine-bust/
