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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>OUAGADOUGOU : Customs officers in Burkina Faso seized a record haul of around 115 kilograms of cocaine worth more than US$11.5 million last week, the directorate general of customs said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The drugs were intercepted on Thursday along the main road linking the southwestern city of Bobo to the capital of Ouagadougou, hidden in a vehicle with a foreign plate pretending to transport manioc flower.The vehicle was loaded in Sierra Leone and drove through Guinea and Mali before crossing into Burkina Faso, a customs spokesman told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Its final destination was Ghana.<\/p>\n

All smugglers on board escaped from the scene and no arrests have been made, the spokesman added.<\/p>\n

Cocaine hauls have become increasingly common in West Africa, a region often used as a transit route for illegal drugs en route from South America to Europe.<\/p>\n

Niger confiscated more than 200 kilograms of cocaine from a truck in January, while Ivory Coast seized a record of more than 2 tonnes of pure cocaine last month.Authorities in Gambia and Senegal have also made significant hauls in recent months.<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Thiam Ndiaga; Writing by Sofia Christensen; Editing by Mark Porter)<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Gambia<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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