The Security Council met on Wednesday to discuss combating drug trafficking in West Africa and the Sahel.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Council that around the world, drug trafficking and transnational organized crime threaten security, undermine respect for the rule of law and jeopardizes peace and stability.

He said that in a growing number of countries, organized criminal networks also fuel the activities of terrorist and extremist groups.

Derrick Mbatha reports.

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