Economics
Heroin Is One of Biggest Mozambique Exports, Researchers Say
- As much as $800 million of the drug passes through annually
- Most of the heroin is bound for Europe via South Africa
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Mozambique boasts vast coal, ruby and gas deposits, but one of the southeast African nation’s biggest exports may be something more sinister: heroin.
As much as $800 million worth of the narcotic is shipped annually from its beaches to neighboring countries and to Europe. That’s according to a research paper by Enact, a European Union-funded initiative to mitigate the impact of transnational organized crime, and a related working paper by Joseph Hanlon, visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.