30% of Europe’s cocaine routed through West Africa region

In tonight’s edition, a new report warns that trafficking routes from Latin America to Europe are increasingly passing through the West Africa region. Also, the new US ambassador to South Africa backtracks on his criticism of the ‘Kill the Boer’ chant. And over a month after Cyclone Gezani devastated eastern Madagascar, the storm’s survivors are facing a new crisis as the price of construction materials has surged by 50 percent.