Russia has offered to co-operate with Africa to combat the multi-billion dollar drug trafficking scourge that has taken hold on the continent. Africa has become a major drug smuggling route to ship cocaine from Latin America and heroin from Afghanistan to other parts of the world like Europe and Asia. Russian and African delegations have discussed the problem at a conference in the South African city of Durban, with the aim of opposing a proposal at the United Nations to legalise dagga. Dries Liebenberg reports . . .