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Legal highs offer lessons for global drug control

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INTERNATIONAL

Legal highs.

‘Jihadi pill’ will spread beyond the Middle East

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INTERNATIONAL

The expansion of Captagon.

Coca production will have far-reaching impacts in Peru

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PERU

Peru’s share in world production appears to be increasing, notwithstanding rising output in Bolivia and Colombia. Although the ‘VRAEM’ area in southern Peru accounts for most…

Syrian drug traffickers could shift routes to Libya

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LIBYA

Still, the narcotics trade provides a lucrative alternative revenue stream for government-aligned actors in Syria. These external pressures are therefore instead likely to prompt…

Syria’s frozen conflict will resist normalisation

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SYRIA

The minister also visited the Syrian embassy in Riyadh, which is preparing to reopen. Damascus aims to highlight another example of the Arab return to ‘business as usual’ with…

Yemen's north-south economic divide will persist

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YEMEN

Aid commitments are on a downward trajectory. In 2022, donors extended over USD2.2bn in assistance out of a budgeted USD4.27bn. Meanwhile, talks are underway between Saudi Arabia…

Somali president seeks to secure foreign support

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SOMALIA

These moves likely aim to shore up the foreign assistance the president requires to accomplish his domestic objectives, including tackling a major drought and possible famine, as…

Morales will not push coca farmers in Bolivia

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BOLIVIA

Coca politics.

Farmajo-Roble row may further disrupt Somali elections

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SOMALIA

This will complicate the final steps to electing a new government before the end of the year.

Abiy may struggle to settle Ethiopia’s Somali east

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ETHIOPIA

The decision follows weeks of unrest in the Ethiopian Somali National Regional State (ESNRS), capped by the August 6 resignation of regional President Abdi Mahmoud Omar ‘Iley’…