Highway 10

Highway 10 is the name for cocaine trafficking from south america to Europe, passing by west africa.
Its a partership between different organizations and corrupt politicians or officiers.
You got the colombian cartel, the italian mafia, the nigerians, ivory coast and ghana.

Highway 10: at first, the Colombian cartels sought the help of the Nigerian mafia to get cocaine through West Africa. The Nigerian mafia needed help from world port authorities. These authorities are paid in coke, have a view on the activity and quickly see how much money they can earn on it, ”point out Nicholas Ibekwe and Daan Bauwens. "As in other African countries, the music industry is said to be used to launder the profits from drug trafficking. In Ivory Coast, pop stars live like millionaires, but we don't know where their money comes from since only a small percentage of their fans can afford records or concert tickets ”, they argue.

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The 10th Parallel marine and aerial routes linking South America and West Africa harbor a long history of trade between the two continents. More recently, these routes have become one of the preferred routes used by Latin American traffickers for shipping multi-tons of cocaine destined for the growing European market. The Parallel’s growing importance in cocaine trafficking has made it known as cocaine “Highway 10” among law enforcement.
Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations, particularly the Colombian ones, have established stable bases in West Africa, controlling and developing the route. West African facilitators, Nigerians as well as an increasing number of nationals from all countries where shipments are stocked, have developed a stronger capacity for taking over more ambitious and lucrative role in the business as transporters, partners, and final buyers. In one case (Guinea), the West African partner had already started developing his own trafficking and manufacturing capacity, reproducing the patterns that made Colombia the business model of the drug industry. In this reshaped context, of particular concern is the role played by the Colombian FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) as provider of cocaine shipments to West African cocaine entrepreneurs, as well as the impact of drug trafficking money on the financing of terrorist and rebel groups operating in the Sahel-Saharan belt.

Interesting ... thanks much for sharing!

Curious if you've seen Zero Zero Zero on Amazon Prime ... was that the route used? 10th parallel? They had to smuggle coke from Mexico to Italy in that series.

I've sharef content on this from the West African Drug Trade report about 7-8 years ago. Now I'm more keen on the West African histories & cultures and how the criminal underworld operates to some degree.

Me also, I’m looking alot on Western criminial organization, specialy the Nigerians.
Also i-m starting to look on the eastern part of Africa, with the heroin trade noe taking route from east africa (somalia, kenya) and going to south africa.

Amongst the Nigerian communities it's generally perceived to be Igbos racketeers involved in a plurality of the drug trade.