Cape Verde

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Group.png Cape Verde  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
File:Location Cape Verde AU Africa.svg
Flag of Cape Verde.svg
Formation5 July 1975
LocationWest Africa, Africa
Typenation state
Member ofAfrican Union, International Criminal Court, La Francophonie, Organisation of African Unity, UN

Cape Verde is a small island nation off West Africa. It is a hub for illegal cocaine smuggling.

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.[1]

Drug bust

In 2019, 11 Russian sailors were arrested after Cape Verde police found 9.5[2][3][4] or 9.6[5] tons of cocaine on their Panama-flagged vessel. This is reported to have an estimated value of $720 million, or the equivalent of 41 percent of Cape Verde’s annual GDP.[5]

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