Recent seizures along the Kenyan and Tanzanian coastlines show a southern route is beginning to rival that Balkan route through Iran and southeast Europe.

Africa’s sporadically identified since 2002 as an origin for heroin reaching Europe.

For the past three years, however, the United Nations has tagged East Africa as a prominent spot.

The world organisation says Afghanistan grows four fifths of the world’s illicit opium products.

Opium production’s increased 17 percent these past two years.

It’s feared a record Afghani opium harvest will flood global heroin markets this year.

Increased drug trafficking could destabilise the already volatile region. Western officials say they fear a repeat of what happened in Guinea-Bissau, which became Africa’s first narco state.

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