Africa-Press – Mozambique. A total of 394 people were arrested for drug trafficking in Maputo, the Mozambican capital, since April 2021, a source from the national criminal investigation service, Sernic, told Lusa on Monday.
According to the same source, of those arrested, 13 are foreigners, mostly of Nigerian and South African nationality.
The arrests recorded occurred until March 2022 in operations that resulted in the seizure of 82 kilos of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis – all incinerated on Friday.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the authorities in Kenya and Tanzania, countries to the north of Mozambique, have increased surveillance in recent years, pushing traffickers south towards the Mozambican coast “in search of new routes and new markets”.
The country is pointed out by several international organisations as a transit corridor for international drug trafficking to Europe and the United States, particularly of heroin from Asia, but seizures of cocaine from South America have also increased.
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