Moroccan court jails 29 in high profile drug and graft scandal
A Moroccan court has sentenced 29 people, including senior politicians, business leaders and football officials, in one of the country's...
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Nigeria busts massive secret Meth lab linked to foreign cartel
Nigerian authorities say they have dismantled what they describe as the country’s largest-ever drug manufacturing operation after uncovering a transnational...
Turkish authorities arrest wanted Moroccan drug kingpin in Istanbul
Turkish authorities recently arrested a major Moroccan drug trafficker, Mohamed Boulakhrif, during a raid in Istanbul’s Şişli district, Turkish pro-government...
Spain arrests 24 in Morocco-linked smuggling crackdown
Spanish police dismantled two networks involved in smuggling migrants and drugs from Morocco to southern Spain in operations in the...
Morocco-linked hashish smuggling tunnel uncovered in Spanish exclave
Spanish police discovered an underground tunnel used to smuggle hashish from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Reuters reported...
Algeria seizes massive drug haul in nationwide crackdown
Three armed drug traffickers were killed and dozens more arrested as Algerian forces carried out a series of nationwide security...
Senegalese soldier killed during anti-cannabis operation
A Senegalese soldier was killed during a clash with suspected traffickers while taking part in an anti-cannabis operation on 11...
West Africa becomes major cocaine transit route for Europe
Cocaine shipments from Latin America to Europe are increasingly passing through West Africa, according to a report by the Global...
Atlantic drug trafficking network hit by Morocco-Spain operation
Joint security efforts between Morocco and Spain have disrupted a major Atlantic drug trafficking network responsible for moving tonnes of...
US poised to initiate next stage of its Venezuela operations
The United States is preparing to initiate a new phase of actions targeting Venezuela, according to information provided by four...
U.S. weighs military action as Venezuela tensions rise
Senior U.S. officials held a series of high-level meetings at the White House to discuss potential military operations in Venezuela,...
Spain: Authorities seize 20 tons of cannabis from Morocco
On October 29th, the Spanish authorities revealed that 20 tonnes of cannabis were seized, after they were dissimulated in trucks...
Saudi Arabia and Iraq ink deal to tackle drug trafficking
Saudi Arabia and Iraq inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on August 6th in Riyadh to boost ties to tackle...
Notorious Ecuador drug trafficker extradited to US
Adolfo Macías, known by his alias “Fito,” and considered Ecuador’s most powerful drug trafficker, has been extradited to the United...
Spanish police bust Morocco-linked cannabis trafficking network
Spanish police have busted a Morocco-linked drug ring smuggling hashish and laundering millions of dollars through a network of shell...
