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The West Africa Drug Policy Network(WADPN) is deeply saddened by the loss of a great icon, Kofi Annan, the former United Nations...

It may be a mere coincidence or a deliberate move but the judiciary in Sierra Leeone seem to be taking drastic measures in an attempt to...

The West Africa Drug Policy Network (WADPN) Guinea Chapter in collaboration with the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) and...

The University of Ghana School of Law, in collaboration with the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program and Open Society Initiative for...

One doesn’t often think of drug users as victims of decades of human rights violations, systematic discrimination and poor access to...

Drug takers, eat, drink, inject, smoke and or inhale more drugs during electioneering period in Sierra Leone, as rogue politicians spend...

Drug trafficking has become a visible threat to governance and development in West Africa. The region is increasingly becoming a hub in...

Until recently, the West Africa region has been perceived as only a transit zone of drugs from Latin America. This general perception...

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one...

True to be told, our nation has been and still continues to arrest and convict in large number citizens found in possession of marijuana....

L’UFR de Sciences Juridiques et Politiques de l’UGB lance un appel à candidature pour la participation à la 1ère session du Cours ouest...

Two studies commissioned in Liberia have simultaneously revealed that drugs, same sex and HIV remain the edges of latent conflict....

Several attempts at reviewing the current Ghanaian PNDC Law 236 were made from 2006 to 2015. The latest attempt, despite a second reading...

In 2014, the debilitating effects of punitive drug laws across West Africa triggered an urgent need for reforms grounded on human rights...

In Ghana, drug abuse is treated as moral weakness, character corruption  and personal inadequacy. Society moralizes, stigmatizes, judges...

Drugs: has criminal justice failed us? is a week-long series of powerful and informative discussions and debates exploring drug policy...

It is another year of the Support Don’t Punishcampaign, a global advocacy campaign that seeks to raise awareness of the harms being...

A new research report examining the relationship between drug consumption, peace and security at the local and state levels in Nigeria,...

“Countering the world drug problem… must be carried out in full conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United...

There is an ongoing debate in Sierra Leone on whether or not it’s time to legalize cannabis sativa in the country. Well, the Hon Chernor...