Afghan opium cultivation skyrockets

AFP English
AFP English
  • 8 years ago
Afghanistan sees a 10 percent jump in opium cultivation this year, highlighting bumper harvests owing to collapsing eradication efforts amid growing insecurity and declining international counter-narcotics assistance, the UN says.

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