JOHANNESBURG—The globe’s biggest narcotraffickers are increasingly using South African ports to smuggle cocaine around the world—including to the United States—according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
South Africa features prominently in the Global Report on Cocaine 2023.
Investigators from South Africa’s Hawks agency, which targets organized crime, confirmed the report’s contents to The Epoch Times, saying that “record amounts” of cocaine had been seized since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Feb. 23, authorities at the port of Durban—on the country’s east coast—discovered almost 900 pounds of cocaine in a container aboard a ship….