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OBSERVATORY OF ILLICIT ECONOMIES IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA 15

25 Aug 2023

On the other, in a context where corruption is rife and drugs networks are well protected, Unanswered questions over the rise in the use of what is the advantage of concealing heroin in capsule heroin capsules form? Further investigation into the unique As shown by the career of Teddy Mafia, the phe- characteristics of the Durban drugs market may seek to nomenon of heroin capsules – the developmen. [...] The austerity measures of the 1990s – The fraud and lack of oversight that accompanies the which resulted in the City Council (now the City County) criminalization of the waste-management sector is so retreating from service provision – led to the severe that Nairobi does not even know how much informalization of the economy of Nairobi and the entry rubbish it actually produces, and so how much ne. [...] In addition to ferrying residents around the city, he also regularly travels to Meto, a district far Regulating the charcoal trade to the south that is close to the border with Tanzania, Charcoal is an essential energy source in East Africa: it is in order to transport charcoal produced in the district cheap, efficient and easily transportable. [...] But they brought about cannot be compromised.’1 These were the words of then little change in the management of the CFR, and his grim South African Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa, assessment of the state of the registry still rings true 10 speaking to the media in November 2010 about the years later. [...] Heroin capsules: a Durban-specific phenomenon? A turbulent drug market: the example of ‘Teddy Mafia’ Assassinations and attempted assassinations suspected of being linked to the drug market in Durban, 2019–2021 Unanswered questions over the rise in the use of heroin capsules Notes Corruption and criminality at Nairobi’s main dumpsite exact a heavy toll on the city’s residents and county government.
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