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East African drug trade refers to the sale and trafficking of illegal drugs that take place in East African countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, and Ethiopia. . The most prevalent types of drugs traded in East Africa are heroin, marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, and khat, all of which are strictly prohibited in East African countri
Certain individuals central to the drug trade in West Africa carried practices and organizations to the south of the continent, where transit costs and risk of detection are relatively lower and new markets exist for harder drugs. [5] Brazil and Venezuela have become major embarkation zones for illegal drugs that are headed for West Africa ...
By 1988, 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa were making plans. A Health Policy and Planning article by Hardon (1990; 5: 186-189) [ 3 ] describes the initiative as follows: The Bamako Initiative is a joint World Health Organization/ United Nations Children's Fund (WHO/UNICEF) Initiative aimed at solving the problems in the financing of primary ...
The United Nations on Wednesday flagged harmful new drug concoctions, named kush, Khadafi, and Monkey Tail, as posing particular health risks across Africa because of their varying and often ...
South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for coronavirus vaccines are taking a more combative approach towards drugmakers and pushing back on policies that deny ...
A record 49.5 million people are expected to go hungry in West and Central Africa next year due to a combination of conflict, climate change and high food prices, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
[3] [4] Across Africa it is estimated that only 3% of required drugs are produced, [5] with medicines not readily available during health emergencies. [6] The roughly 375 medicine manufacturers on the continent produce only 10-30% of drugs used in Africa. [7] Another challenge is the proliferation of substandard and counterfeit medical products ...
Conflicts and soaring prices have helped drive food insecurity to a 10-year high in West and Central Africa, according to a March analysis by the Cadre Harmonise, a regional food security framework.