Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of the world’s biggest opium producer, according to a UN agency report.
The South-East Asian country’s opium output has topped Afghanistan’s, where the ruling Taliban imposed a ban on its production, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said in its South-East Asia Opium Survey 2023.
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