Guinea-Bissau’s military coup has triggered widespread regional condemnation, with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) suspending the country’s membership. However, this move may inadvertently strengthen the junta’s ties with trans-Atlantic drug networks, which could exploit the country’s instability for their benefit.
The risk is that Guinea-Bissau becomes increasingly isolated, allowing these networks to finance and protect the junta, further entrenching its power.
For decades, Guinea-Bissau has occupied a precarious corner of West Africa’s political geography: a fragile state with a strategic coastline, a turbulent civil-military history, and a long, well-documented entanglement with the global cocaine economy.
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