Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone appears in Taking the shine off: albedo and global temperatures as an earlier West Africa Cocaine Transit case. Ori Ogunbiyi says a Dutchman with a 24-year prison sentence in the Netherlands was described as hiding there, illustrating how weak enforcement and corruption can let traffickers use the region as a safe operating base.

The source also treats Sierra Leone as a route-displacement example. Increased scrutiny of shipments from Sierra Leone is said to have pushed traffickers toward other countries, including Liberia and Ghana, making Cocaine Route Displacement a regional rather than single-country problem.

Connections

• West Africa, Liberia, and Ghana - regional route context.
• Ori Ogunbiyi - source reporter.
• West Africa Cocaine Transit, Cocaine Route Displacement, Narco-State Risk, and Small-State Enforcement Capacity - concepts tied to the Sierra Leone example.