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Amsterdam \u2014 Production capacity for synthetic drugs has expanded dramatically under cover of the ‘fog of war’ in Sudan – a January 2026 seizure in Red Sea State captured nearly half a tonne of drugs, mainly crystal meth. This is a signal of Sudan’s integration into a broader economy in the wake of the December 2024 collapse of Syria’s state-sponsored Captagon<\/a> industry, which is relocating toward environments characterised by conflict, fragmented authority, weak border controls, and entrenched…<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Amsterdam \u2014 Production capacity for synthetic drugs has expanded dramatically under cover of the ‘fog of war’ in Sudan – a January 2026 seizure in Red Sea State captured nearly half a tonne of drugs, mainly crystal meth. This is a signal of Sudan’s integration into a broader economy in the wake of the December […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":226471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6614,5762,14311,9926,257,254,48833,4708,1613,6618],"class_list":["post-226470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drugs","tag-economy","tag-fuelling","tag-illicit","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stpt","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/226470","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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