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Trafficking in the Sahel-Saharan zone: features and stakes
Authors
Jean-Luc Peduzzi
February 20, 2010

On November 5th 2009, a cocaine-loaded Boeing 727 aircraft arriving from Venezuela was discovered torched and emptied on a makeshift airstrip in the Malian desert (Gao region). The sahel-saharan area is clearly a contact zone between very distant worlds.

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