JOHANNESBURG, Aug 6 (Reuters) - South Africa will help Guinea-Bissau fight drugs cartels that have made the tiny West African country a key trafficking hub, the two countries said on Monday.

Latin American drugs gangs use Guinea-Bissau's unpoliced shores, remote islands and bush airstrips to ferry millions of dollars worth of Colombian cocaine to lucrative European markets.

"We do have a serious drug problem in our country although we do not produce drugs," Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Martinho Ndafa Kabi said after meeting Deputy South African President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday.

Several tonnes of cocaine have been seized in Guinea-Bissau and neighbouring Senegal in the past year.

Experts say a critical lack of resources have hampered efforts by Guinea-Bissau's police to fight smuggling.

Some officials have been accused of complicity with traffickers, although top members of the administration have denied involvement.

Kabi said his country wanted to benefit from South Africa's experience in training its police and defence force.

"I do not think that we position ourselves as a country that has all the answers or the capacity to respond, but we can exchange lessons, even where we have failed, since we have common challenges," Mlambo-Ngcuka said.

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