2.88 tonnes of cannabis seized at Akaty on Ghana border
Ivorian customs seized 57 packages totalling 2.88 tonnes of cannabis at Akaty near the Ghana border after an anonymous tip. Two people were detained during the 21-23 June 2022 customs operations, which also netted falsified medicines.
Ivorian customs announced that nearly three tonnes of cannabis had been seized
in eastern Ivory Coast near the Ghana border.[1]The operation followed an
anonymous tip reporting bags containing cannabis from Ghana.[2]The
intervention took place in the border locality of Akaty.[1]
Officers seized 57 packages of cannabis with a total weight of 2.88 tonnes
during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.[1]The Abengourou customs service
was credited with the 2.88-tonne cannabis seizure in the east of the country.[3]The customs operations ran for 48 hours from Tuesday 21 June to Thursday 23
June 2022.[3]Those operations led to two people being detained.[3]Separately, 1.75 tonnes of inferior and falsified medicines were seized on
Thursday at a camp in a cocoa plantation at Angouakro, also near the Ghanaian
border.[1]
In April, customs had made a record 2.06-tonne cocaine seizure in the port
cities of Abidjan and San Pedro, with an estimated market value of 41 billion
CFA francs, nearly 62 million euros.[1]That cocaine case caused a stir with
the arrest of about thirty people.[1]Ivory Coast has in recent years become a
favoured transit country for cocaine between Latin America and Europe.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The exact seizure night of 21-22 June is inferred from the reported 48-hour operation running Tuesday 21 June to Thursday 23 June, while the wire accounts give only the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
The two detained people are reported for the combined 48-hour customs operations, so their link specifically to the cannabis rather than the parallel medicines seizure is not separated in the sources.
No names, charges or judicial outcome for the detained people were reported.
The 1.75 tonnes of inferior and falsified medicines are a separate non-cannabis seizure and are excluded from cannabis figures.
No photo entry is included because the available images carry only the article title without event-specific caption or credit establishing that they show this seizure.
Police seized 160.5 kg of cannabis in 160 blocks from a studio in Bimbresso, Songon, on 3 November 2026 and arrested two men. The suspects and drugs were handed to the anti-drug police, who are continuing the investigation.
Ivory Coast's anti-drug units arrested 152 people and destroyed 131 fumoirs, drug-smoking rooms, during Operation Vacances sécurisées 11, the 2026 school-holiday security drive. The prefect of police said the operation seized 774.075 kg of cannabis; he gave the results at Bingerville on 29 October 2026, as he launched its successor, Épervier 12.
The anti-drug unit of the Autonomous Port of Abidjan seized 25.10 kg of cannabis in Grand-Bassam on 22 October 2026 and arrested two people, who were held for investigation. The operation was part of Opération Épervier Spécial.
GRAD officers arrested two people at Mondoukou on 15 October 2026, seizing 53.003 kg of cannabis and 4,808 diverted medicine tablets while destroying seven drug-use dens. The haul was also presented as the unit's cumulative result for 1 to 15 October under Opération Épervier Spécial.
