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Article: West Africa now key cocaine hub for Europe.(WORLD)(United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- November 23, 2007
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Byline: Tristan McConnell Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Accra, Ghana -- Two British high-school girls now face three years in a juvenile detention center in the West African country of Ghana after being convicted Wednesday of trying to smuggle more than $600,000 of cocaine to England.
The conviction highlights what observers say is a troubling trend for West Africa, as the region becomes a key staging post for illegal drugs heading to Europe from South America.
While cocaine use has leveled off in the United States in recent years, Europe is in the throes of a boom comparable to the one that hit America in the 1980s: According ...