NEW POLICE ACADEMY FOR ORGANISED CRIME VICTIM GUINEA-BISSAU
February 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations and Brazil are helping a small west African country fight against its exposure to organised drugs crime by funding and helping manage the construction of a new police academy. Since a civil war in the late 1990s, Guinea-Bissau - a former Portuguese colony - has seen weak governments under attack from international narcotics rings. A UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report noted: "The country has become the hub of a new cocaine trafficking route from south America via west Africa to supply growing demand for illegal ...
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