Gendarmerie seize 2.4 kg of cannabis at Agchorguit
Gendarmes at Agchorguit stopped a Toyota Avensis Verso arriving from Boghé on 9 April 2025 and seized 2.4 kg of cannabis from its driver. The load was bound for a recipient in Nouakchott.
Mauritania’s gendarmerie brigade on duty at Agchorguit seized drugs on Wednesday
9 April 2025 during a routine check of a vehicle arriving from the town of
Boghé.[1]The National Gendarmerie announced the seizure in a tweet.[1]The
parcel was addressed to a recipient in Nouakchott, and the gendarmes foiled an
attempt to bring the drug into the capital.[1]
The operation took place at 11:30.[1]Officers seized 2.4 kg of cannabis found
on the driver of a Toyota Avensis Verso.[1]
Rimnow’s original account likewise says the Agchorguit brigade seized the drug
during a routine check of a vehicle from Boghé on Wednesday 9 April, as
announced in the National Gendarmerie’s tweet.[2]Rimnow likewise reports the
11:30 operation and the seizure of 2.4 kg of cannabis from the driver of a
Toyota Avensis Verso.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
2.4 kg
Agency type
Gendarmerie
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (2.4 kg)
Setting
Mail or parcel
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Cridemcridem.orgFRMauritanie : Saisie de 2,4 kg de cannabis à bord d’un véhicule se dirigeant vers la capitale Nouakchott
Rimnowrimnow.netFRSaisie de 2,4 kg de cannabis à bord d’un véhicule se dirigeant vers la capitale Nouakchott
Open questions the AI reported
The reports say the cannabis was seized from the driver but do not state explicitly whether the driver was arrested, named or charged.
No names, ages, charges or later court outcome were reported.
The Cridem page is a reprint of the Rimnow account, so no independent second account was available.
Gendarmes at the PK55 border post in Dakhlet Nouadhibou found about 26 kg of cannabis resin hidden in a vehicle heading into Mauritania on 29 September 2026 and arrested two foreign nationals. The gendarmerie sealed the drug and began judicial proceedings against the two.
Police and gendarmerie units announced a run of raids in July and August 2026, breaking up at least ten networks and arresting dozens of people. The largest seizures were 202 kg of cannabis resin hidden in food shipments, 230 kg in a truck trailer at Bassiknou and 210 kg at Nouadhibou, alongside smaller amounts and thousands of psychotropic tablets.
Police intercepted 30 slabs of cannabis weighing 27 kg at the El-Messellem control post in Guidimakha wilaya on 19 November 2025, arresting a driver caught transporting the load from a neighbouring country. The Ghabou commissariat opened an inquiry.
Customs officers at Rosso, on Mauritania's border with Senegal, seized a large cannabis load from traffickers heading for Nouakchott, the customs service announced on Facebook. Customs released a video of the cannabis wrapped and hidden in plastic baskets, but gave no weight, count or arrests.
