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Due to a lack of control, drug trafficking is increasing and fuelling insecurity in the north of Cameroon.<\/p>\n
In July this year, after June’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Cameroon’s public health minister revealed that the Far North Region was in the top three countrywide with the highest rates of drug use. North West and South West were the other two regions.<\/p>\n
In 2021, the Far North alone accounted<\/a> for 43% of new drug users, up from 10% in 2017 and 22% in 2019. The…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Due to a lack of control, drug trafficking is increasing and fuelling insecurity in the north of Cameroon. In July this year, after June’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, Cameroon’s public health minister revealed that the Far North Region was in the top three countrywide with the highest rates of drug use. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,4331,6949,257,6732,254,41906],"class_list":["post-186292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroons","tag-drug","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stronghold"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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