This from a recent UN press release:

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"Last month Guinea-Bissau became the third country on the Commission's agenda - joining Burundi and Sierra Leone - after the Security Council backed a request from the Government of the country, which has increasingly been beset by problems caused by drug trafficking and organized crime.

The Council heard briefings from senior UN officials that the value of the drug trade in Guinea-Bissau is greater than the entire national income and that, using a combination of threats and bribes, traffickers are infiltrating State structures and operating with impunity.

Police and judicial authorities have become overwhelmed both by the scale of the problem and by the alliance between foreign criminal groups and powerful local figures.

Guinea-Bissau also struggles with problems regarding governmental capacity, security sector reform, economic recovery and the upcoming scheduled elections."