The West African Drug Crisis is Worse than You Think

If we mention West Africa, odds are you'll be expecting a video on either coups or terrorist attacks. And yes, good reason. Since 2020 the region has had at least seven cou ps across five countries – Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger and Guinea-Bissau.

And those are just the successful ones, both Benin and Nigeria successfully thwarted coup attempts just last year. In that same period, there have been so many terror attacks that the hell now accounts for nearly half of all terrorism-related deaths globally.

Now, all of this happening simultaneously would be a lot for any region to handle, and the strain is showing especially in places like Mali.