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Senegal seizes 798 kg of cocaine hidden in cars on a ship
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Senegal... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... has seized 798 kg of cocaine hidden inside new cars on a ship travelling from Brazil, the customs authority said on Sunday, the latest in a series of large seizures off the West African coast this year. It said the cocaine was discovered overnight inside 15 cars that the ship, which anchored at port in the capital Dakar, was transporting. The discovery follows the seizure last Wednesday of 238 kg of cocaine smuggled from Brazil in a similar manner through Dakar’s port. Drug smugglers use West Africa as a transshipment point for cocaine en route from South America to Europe  ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...Last week, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said 3.4 tons of cocaine were seized in Africa in 2017, back up to 2013 levels after falling to 1.2 tons in 2015, although the data likely underestimates the extent of drug trafficking on the continent. Seizures in West Africa are on the rise this year, with several unusually large quantities intercepted. Posted by: Fred 2019-07-01 |
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