Senegalese customs announced in a statement on Thursday that they intercepted more than 360 kilogrammes of cocaine worth $48.3 million in the country’s southeast.
In recent months, authorities have seized a growing amount of cocaine from neighboring nations, particularly Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mali, which are thought to be transit points for drugs produced in Latin America on their way to Europe.
Customs officers said in a statement that they intercepted 365.4 kilogrammes of cocaine from a lorry traveling from an undisclosed “neighbouring” country in the town of Koupentoum.
The pills, worth 29.2 billion CFA francs ($48.3 million), were hidden under the lorry’s bed.
This is the third cocaine seizure since January, according to customs.
Koupentoum is located on a road that connects Mali with Gambia.
Customs has revealed multiple cocaine seizures in recent months, including a one-tonne haul in mid-April in the country’s east, near the Mali border, as well as several earlier this month.
In November 2023, the army announced the recovery of approximately three tons of cocaine from a vessel intercepted in international waters off the coast of Senegal.