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Kenya: Europe's cocaine flown from Nairobi - UN report Sat. March 03, 2007 07:10 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - (SomaliNet) European cocaine habits are increasingly fed through African nations and the Kenyan capital is the major transit point for trafficking the drug by air, the United Nations drug watchdog said on Thursday. "Cocaine is smuggled by air into Europe via cities in eastern Africa, mainly Nairobi," the U.N.'s International Narcotics Control Board said in its 2006 annual report on drug trafficking trends. Kenyan Police seized a 1.1 tonne cache of cocaine in December 2004 worth an estimated $88 million, one of Africa's biggest drug seizures to date. Several Kenya Airways employees soon after were caught smuggling the drug into London's Heathrow Airport, raising fears some of the cocaine had escaped from police custody. "A lack of adequate funds and specialists ... are contributing to Kenya becoming a major route for heroin and cocaine trafficking," Kenya's assistant minister of health, Dr. Wilfred Machage, told a news conference. Diplomats say corruption among police and customs agents makes Kenya an attractive destination for smugglers.-Reuters News Category: East Africa Latest Headlines Latest News Somalia: Somali pirates hijack second Stolt ship-of... Libya: 6 killed as gun battles break out in southeas... Nigeria: Militants threaten to renew "oil war" if a... Zimbabwe: Opposition chief Tsvangirai rejects SADC c... Philippine: Troops kill 10 Muslim rebels in the troub... Ivory Coast: Political leaders postpone November 3... Rwanda: Thousands protest against arrest of Rwa... Nicaragua: Thousands riot after Nicaragua local elec... India negotiating a $1.5 -billion arms deal with Isra... Sudan, Chad restore full diplomatic ties, exchange e... More News...