A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

A cycle of debt, sex work and cocaine: the women in west Africa caught in Europe’s drugs trail

As white powder bound for European ports floods the city of Agadez in Niger, female migrants are the most common victims in a growing addiction crisis

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In recent years, women who have become trapped in sex work in the Niger city of Agadez have found a new way to blot of the pain of what their lives have become. Crack cocaine.

Agadez has long been a transit point for people trying to pass through north Africa and across the Mediterranean to Europe. Now the Nigerien city is a hub for the flow of drugs heading towards Europe too.

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