More than 800 kg of cocaine seized on a ship off Senegal More than 800 kg of cocaine have been seized by the Senegalese Navy on a ship off Dakar, the Senegalese Army Public Relations Department (Dirpa) said on Tuesday.
The seizure of 805 kg of cocaine was carried out by an army “ocean patrol boat” 335 km from the capital on Sunday, Dirpa said in a press release, without giving any further information on the intercepted ship, its crew and its starting point. or the value of the cargo.
The Senegalese Navy seizes more than 800 kg of cocaine.
On January 22, 2023, the deep-sea patrol ship KEDOUGOU intercepted a ship carrying 805 kg of cocaine 335 km from Dakar. pic.twitter.com/MfEaYpIEya— DIRPA (@CHIEFDIRPA) January 24, 2023
Senegalese customs in October announced the seizure of 300 kg of cocaine worth almost 37 million euros in a refrigerated truck from neighboring Mali.
West and Central Africa, long thought to be purely a transit zone for drugs manufactured in Latin America, has also become a high-consumption region, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) annual report released in June 2022.
“Between 2019 and 2022 (…) at least 57 tons of cocaine were seized in West Africa or en route to that region, mainly in Cape Verde (16.6 tons), Senegal (4.7 tons), Benin (3.9 tons), Côte d’Ivoire (3.5 tons), Gambia (3 tons) and Guinea-Bissau (2.7 tons),” the report said.