News briefing, week beginning 22 September

200 kilograms of heroin, 1.3 tonnes of cannabis and 599 kilograms of cocaine were seized and 1150 people were arrested, following Operation Archimedes coordinated by Europol across Europe. Mexican drug cartels have begun trafficking cocaine directly from Southern America, displacing the Colombian middlemen. The European Union and the United Nations pledged their continued support for…

Nigeria

Key legal framework UN conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime  …

Togo

Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime  …

Peru

Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime  …

Uruguay

Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime  …

Trinidad & Tobago

Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime  …

South Africa

Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 2000 UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime  …

Sierra Leone

Key legal framework UN Conventions ratified 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances UN Convention against Corruption Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime   Narcotics laws 1947/13 – The Dangerous Drugs…