Difference between revisions of "Guinea-Bissau"
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Revision as of 14:14, 18 May 2019
 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 |
Guinea-Bissau is a small nation state in Africa. It was been termed a "narco-state" due to the importance of it role as 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]
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