'This is alarming': Latest data released from UN shows 'record-high coca-cultivation'
Coca cultivation hit a record high by soaring 35 percent from 2020 to 2021, a UN report showed Thursday, amid new cocaine trafficking hubs emerging in southeastern Europe and Africa. Global cocaine manufacturing already reached an estimated 2,000 tons by 2020. For more on the record-high cocaine supply, FRANCE 24 is joined by Chloé Carpentier, Chief of the Drug Research Section at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).