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Egypt drug seizures quadruples
News24 South Africa
Monday 19 Feb 2007 Cairo - Egyptian cannabis seizures more than quadrupled in 2006, said the country's top anti-drugs official on Monday. "The problem is increasingly acute," Anti-Narcotic General Administration (Anga) chief Ahmed Kamaleddin Samak said as he presented his agency's annual report. More than five tons of cannabis were seized by police in 2006, in what he said was a 336% increase from the previous year. The number of arrests, seizures and other operations carried out by the interior ministry also soared by 30% during the same period, said the report. "The global increase in consumption... and the proximity of conflict zones facilitating drug trafficking" are among the main factors accounting for this surge, said Samak. According to the UN office on drugs and crime, Egypt's strategic location "makes it a potential transit point for trafficking of heroin and cannabis from major production areas in South East Asia to European markets". Samak said his agency was due to present by June a 20-year plan to combat drugs by tackling money-laundering, launching public awareness campaigns and eradicating cultivation. Anga was established in 1929 and is the world's oldest drug control agency. http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,9294,2-11-1447_2071755,00.html
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