Customs seize 28.97 kg of hashish at Dakar's Blaise Diagne airport
Senegal's customs brigade at Blaise Diagne International Airport seized 289 plates of cannabis resin weighing 28.97 kg from two suitcases on 26 February 2026. A foreign passenger arriving from the Maghreb and the suspected recipient, a 45-year-old Senegalese man, were handed to the Mbour prosecutor.
🇸🇳 Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD), Diass, Mbour · Senegal
Customs officers at Senegal’s Blaise Diagne International Airport (AIBD) seized
289 plates of cannabis resin weighing 28.97 kg on 26 February 2026.[1][2]The
tourism brigade of the airport customs subdivision, part of the western regional
directorate, made the find at about 7pm.[1][2]
The drug was hidden in two suitcases belonging to a foreign woman arriving from a
Maghreb country.[1][2]Officers noticed suspicious signs when the bags passed
through the scanner and found the plates when they opened them.[1][2]Laboratory
tests by the scientific police confirmed the substance was hashish.[1][2]
The customs administration estimated the load’s value at 190 million CFA francs.[1][2]The passenger’s questioning led to the arrest the same day of the suspected
recipient, a 45-year-old Senegalese man.[1][2]
Both were handed to the prosecutor’s office in Mbour, and the investigation
continues.[1][2]
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Lead photograph in Seneweb's gallery of the AIBD seizure; the outlet gives no individual caption.Photo details
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The customs statement did not name the passenger or give her nationality beyond describing her as a foreign woman arriving from a Maghreb country.
The reports do not say what charges were filed or what happened at the Mbour prosecutor's office.
The 190 million CFA franc figure is the customs administration's own estimate.
Seneweb's gallery runs to ten photographs without individual captions; APAnews published a separate photo that may duplicate one of them.
Both reports carry the customs administration's account of the seizure.
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