Pope Francis said Latin America had to address the "plague" of femicide, as well as drug and gang violence. He also slammed anti-migration rhetoric built on "fears and suspicions."

Human rights groups say 12,000 people have been killed in Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. The Philippines president has bragged himself of killing criminals. His legal advisor tells DW, “We can kill out of self-defense.”

Back in the 1990s, Portugal faced a heroin crisis. Most people knew someone affected by the lethal drug. Just two decades later, the country has one of the lowest drug-related death rates in the world.

NAFDAC drug seizure - agency pushes for stricter penalties for offenders.

Once a smuggling stop for Cambodia's Khmer Rouge guerrillas, the Thai border town of Bo Rai has found itself on a new front line - against drug-resistant malaria strains which threaten to reverse the global fight against the disease.

Having attended to over 1044 patients across its 11 centres in 2015 alone, Nigeria’s National Epidemiological Network on Drug Use (NENDU), says the median age for drug use in the country is 28 years.

The Senate, yesterday, raised the alarm that the 19 Northern states of the federation were under serious threat due to drug abuse, stating that over three million bottles of codeine syrup were consumed daily in Kano and Jigawa states.

Women lawyers hold rally to campaign against drug trafficking and abuse.

Consolidating security gains from Colombia's recent peace deal with FARC guerrillas while battling remaining leftist rebels and drug trafficking gangs will take a decade, according to the head of the armed forces.

Coroner insists Adeleke died of drug overdose.

Northern Governors Wives meet in Abuja to tackle drug abuse menace.

The poor and most vulnerable in Tanzania are suffering from a major shortage of basic medicines. Public health facilities only have half the drugs they need after the government failed to release funds.