Burkina Faso's Bobo-Dioulasso Mobile Customs Brigade seized 900 kg of cannabis and five motorcycles in a night ambush about 40 kilometres from the city on 24-25 April 2021. Customs valued the haul at 92.5 million CFA francs and reported no arrests.
🇧🇫 About 40 kilometres from Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
The Bobo-Dioulasso Mobile Customs Brigade seized900 kilograms of cannabis and
five motorcycles in an ambush overnight near the city.[1]The operation ran
between 1 and 2 a.m. in the night of Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 April 2021, about
forty kilometres from Bobo-Dioulasso.[1]The five motorcycles were used to
carry the cannabis, the account says.[1]
The brigade is a key unit of the subdivision of the Western Regional Customs
Directorate.[1]After receiving a tip, the brigade’s chief, Chief Inspector of
Customs Téghawendé Macaire Yameogo, sent a team to a route used by the
traffickers.[1]The cannabis was valued at 92,500,000 CFA francs, after the
opening paragraph described the haul as worth more than 90 million.[1]The
Director General of Customs urged residents to work with customs officers
against fraud and to report suspicious cases to the nearest customs service.[1]
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Lead photo published with KOACI's account of the near-tonne cannabis seizure near Bobo-Dioulasso; the page gives no caption or credit for it.Photo details
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
900 kg
Vehicles confiscated
5
Value (official estimate)
XOF 92,500,000
Agency type
Customs
Cannabis
Herbal cannabis (900 kg)
Activity
Trafficking
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
KOACIkoaci.comFRBurkina Faso : Nouvelle saisie de près d'une tonne de cannabis
Open questions the AI reported
The operation ran overnight from 24 to 25 April 2021 between 1 and 2 a.m.; 25 April is used as the incident date.
The account gives the location only as about forty kilometres from Bobo-Dioulasso and names neither the road nor the exact interception point, so coordinates are for the city with region precision.
No suspect is named or counted and no arrest, charge or court outcome is reported, although an ambush on traffickers' routes is described.
The opening paragraph puts the haul at more than 90 million CFA francs while a later one gives 92,500,000; the specific figure is recorded and the person or agency making the valuation is not identified.
The report says the brigade had made three previous seizures without describing them; they are separate events not covered here.
Only one accessible account could be opened; no independent report or separate customs statement was found.
The Anti-Drug Unit of the Judicial Police announced on 29 September 2026 that it had dismantled a cannabis trafficking and sales network in Ouagadougou, seizing nearly 86 kg of cannabis plus adulterated drinks, contraband cigarettes and psychotropics supplied from a neighbouring country and gold-mining sites.
Burkina Faso's regional judicial police in Koulsé seized 575.15 kg of cannabis in Kaya and Ouagadougou and arrested one network member, police said on 25 September 2025. The same day the central police station in Pô arrested two travellers carrying 20.5 kg of cannabis on National Road 5.
Police in Gaoua, southwestern Burkina Faso, seized 90 kg of cannabis together with more than 5,000 litres of contraband alcohol in an operation backed by the GCRS. Authorities valued the combined haul at 25 million CFA francs and said a network based in Malba was supplying artisanal gold-mining sites around Gaoua, Kampti and Galgouli.
Burkina Faso customs seized 740 slabs of cannabis hidden in a seven-tonne vehicle on the Bobo-Dioulasso–Ouagadougou road on 29 February 2024. The brigade valued the cannabis at 52.5 million CFA francs and presented the operation as part of counter-terrorism and public-safety enforcement.
