A ship in worldwide waters off the coast of Senegal was introduced again to a naval base in Dakar to evaluate the unlawful cargo
Almost three tons of cocaine have been confiscated from a ship moored off the coast of Senegal, the nation’s navy introduced on Tuesday. The seizure was reportedly Senegal’s largest drug haul on file.
The vessel Ville d’Abidjan was intercepted in worldwide waters 150km from Dakar on Sunday night time, the navy mentioned, including that of the ten crew members on board, one was Senegalese. On Tuesday, the ship was escorted to the Admiral Faye Gassama Naval Base in Dakar for “identification and logging of the seized merchandise,” together with 2.975 tons of pure cocaine.
Senegalese authorities seized 800 kg of cocaine off the coast of Dakar in January and confiscated 300 kg of the drug from a refrigerated truck coming into from Mali in October. In 2021, the Senegalese Navy confiscated 2.026 tons of cocaine from a ship a number of hundred kilometers off the coast.
The UN Workplace on Medication and Crime (UNODC) has highlighted West Africa as a rising area of drug consumption, in addition to an more and more vital transit level. At the least 57 tons of the drug have been intercepted in or en path to West Africa between 2019 and 2022, with 4.7 tons of that present in Senegal.
Cocaine manufacturing reached an all-time excessive this 12 months, in line with the UNODC, which famous that regardless of the continued international “struggle on medication,” enhancements in cultivation and processing expertise coupled with new transit hubs and ever-increasing demand have led to an explosion in provide.
On the similar time, the workplace mentioned, authorities are seizing extra cocaine than ever, with interceptions rising even sooner than manufacturing, in line with a UNODC report launched in March.
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