Nuku'alofa, Tonga, Oct 9, 2024 (AFP) - Pacific island nations swamped by global drug trade

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2024-10-09

A surge of drugs is engulfing the paradisal South Pacific, as cartels and triads use far-flung island nations to channel narcotics across the globe, top police and UN officials have told AFP. Pacific islands such as Fiji and Tonga sit at the crossroads of largely unpatrolled ocean-trafficking routes used to shift cocaine from Latin America and methamphetamine and opioids from Asia. This illicit cargo is increasingly spilling over into local hands......

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