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The cocaine trade in Guinea-Bissau: Telephone of a dead president

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An international network led by Latin American drug cartels and the Lebanese Islamist group...

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Marco Vernaschi - West Africa's New Achilles' Heel - VRIJ Nederland

A quarter of all cocaine that comes into Europe is smuggled through Africa. In the past year, Guinea-Bissau has been especially touched by the grip of the Colombian mafia and Al-Qaeda. Italian photographer Marco Vernaschi reports from a country derailed.

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