Drug traffickers are turning to submarines and other methods to avoid detection as they ship ever-greater quantities of cocaine via West Africa from the production fields of South America to the markets of Europe.
"We are not talking about military vessels here, but rather smaller ones which can be bought freely on the international market by anybody who has a couple of million dollars to spare," said Alexandre Schmidt, regional head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
He was speaking during a drugs summit dubbed the West Africa Coast Initiative held in Senegal this week.
GlobalPost has previously reported on the use of drugs subs in South America but this is the first time officials have suggested they are being used in Africa
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