The findings were part of the UNODC’s 2022 World Drug Report presented in Ivory Coast
Abidjan — Opioid and cannabis abuse are above global averages in West and Central Africa, while cocaine trafficking through the region is financing militant violence in the Sahel, the UN said in a report on Monday.
Drugs have also become a public health problem within West and Central Africa, with 9.7% of people aged between 15 and 64 having consumed cannabis in 2020, compared with 3.8% worldwide, the agency said in a report. Slow recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, the Sahel’s spiralling humanitarian crisis and the impact of the war in Ukraine could worsen drug taking and trafficking if governments did not respond to warning signs, the agency said.
Those countries’ borderlands are a hotspot of violent jihadist activity, some linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State, that has gained momentum and ground over the past decade.
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