Middle East and Africa | Drugs smuggling in Africa
The Smack Track
East African states are being undermined by heroin smuggling
|NAIROBI
EXPERTS are calling it the African “Smack Track”: a circuitous route to smuggle heroin from Afghanistan to Europe, passing through east Africa. Two drug busts in November, netting 712kg of the stuff, closed a record year for heroin seizures off the coast of Kenya. The haul is less a sign of improved policing and more evidence of the growing importance of the route.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline "The Smack Track"
From the January 17th 2015 edition
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