U.N.: Africa Emerging as Hub for Heroin Trafficking

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Drug traffickers faced with restrictions to transit routes through Asia and the Middle East are turning to eastern Africa, driving up instability and increasing substance abuse, a United Nations report said.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/us-un-drugs-idUSTRE76T0PH20110730

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