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The Senegalese Navy has seized more than 800 kg of cocaine on a ship off the coast of Dakar, the Senegalese Public Affairs Agency (Dirpa) said on Tuesday (24 January).
A Dirpa statement said 805 kg (about 1,700 pounds) of cocaine was seized on Sunday (22 January) by a military “high seas patrol vessel” 335 km from the capital. However, no exact details were provided regarding the intercepted vessel, its crew, its point of departure, or the value of the cargo.
Senegalese customs said in October that 300 kg of cocaine, worth about €37 million, had been seized from a refrigerated truck from neighboring Mali.
Central and West Africa have long been transit zones for drugs produced in Latin America, but according to the **United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime** (UNODC) annual report published last June, this The region is becoming a market. for narcotics.
“Between 2019 and 2022 […] At least 57 tons of cocaine were seized, mainly in Cape Verde (16.6 tons), Senegal (4.7 tons), Benin (3.9 tons), Ivory Coast (3.5 tons) and Gambia (3 tons). ) and Guinea-Bissau (2.7 tons),” the report read.
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