Mory M. DIAKITE
- Agricultural engineer specialized in plant protection
- Drugs in West Africa: production systems and transit networks
- 11/2024
Presentation
“Drugs are a gangrene that threatens every country affected by their trafficking, whether producer, transit agent, or recipient. A gangrene spread across all continents and aggravated by globalization.” These words from former French President Jacques Chirac amply demonstrate the proportions taken by drug trafficking and foreshadow the difficulty of combating it due to an insidious phenomenon that no one can escape: globalization.
For several decades, West Africa has been facing a growing problem of drug production and trafficking. Porous borders, poverty, and political instability in the region fuel this threat, harming the economic development and social stability of states.
To better understand this situation, several avenues must be explored. Hence the following question:
• What are the most widely produced illicit drugs in Africa?
• What are the main production regions and why?
• What socio-economic factors influence this production?
• How did trafficking networks develop and what methods do traffickers use?
• What are the consequences of drug production and trafficking in West Africa?
Biography
An agricultural engineer specializing in plant protection, Mory Mandiana Diakite is currently deputy general manager in charge of research at the Institut Itinérant de Formation et de Prévention Intégrées contre la Drogue et autres Conduites Addictives (IIFPIDCA). Mory completed a master’s degree and doctoral thesis in the People’s Republic of China, after a spell at the Valery Giscard d’Estaing agronomic and veterinary institute in Faranah, Guinea Conakry. He works on issues relating to drugs, democracy, the African renaissance and the semio-chemical control of stored food pests. He is the author of several books, including: drogue en milieu éducatif ou les chemins de la perditions (poems).
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