{"id":26270,"date":"2024-09-30T22:49:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/finding-mr-fox-inside-west-africas-drug-trafficking-highway-bbc-africa-eye-documentary"},"modified":"2024-09-30T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T22:56:25","slug":"finding-mr-fox-inside-west-africas-drug-trafficking-highway-bbc-africa-eye-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/finding-mr-fox-inside-west-africas-drug-trafficking-highway-bbc-africa-eye-documentary","title":{"rendered":"Finding Mr Fox: Inside West Africa\u2019s drug trafficking highway – BBC Africa Eye documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>Award-winning Cape Verdean rapper Ga DaLomba investigates \u2018Highway 10\u2019. This drug trafficking route is named after the 10th parallel North, the circle of latitude which charts the shortest sea-faring route across the Atlantic from South America to Africa.<\/p>\n

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, at least fifty tonnes of cocaine crosses West Africa every year with most arriving via Highway 10, but around 30% of the drugs are sold during transit.<\/p>\n

As a result, Cape Verde has become known as a \u2018motorway service station\u2019 for traffickers, with Europe\u2019s 11 billion dollar cocaine market often the final destination.<\/p>\n

Ga DaLomba, himself a recovering cocaine addict, meets dealers and law enforcement officers in Cape Verde who have all witnessed a massive influx of cocaine, with the number of addicts also increasing.<\/p>\n

Ga then searches for an alleged drug trafficker, a British man known as \u2018Fox\u2019, who Brazilian police believe used \u2018Highway 10\u2019 to transport one tonne of cocaine…and is yet to face justice. Ga\u2019s search for \u2018Fox\u2019 takes him to Norwich in the UK where the allegations are put to him.
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