Myanmar has become the world’s largest source of opium due to domestic instability and a decline in cultivation in Afghanistan, the United Nations has said in a report. The 95% decline in opium cultivation in Afghanistan after a drug ban by the Taliban in 2022 has seen global supply shifted to Myanmar, where political, social and economic instability brought about by a 2021 coup drove many to poppy farming, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report said on Tuesday.

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