Two men were detained in Caia district, Sofala Province, found with 25 Kg of cannabis sativa, known as soruma. The detention occurred on the Sunday before the 14 February 2022 publication, understood as 13 February 2022; no charges or court outcome were reported.
Two men were detained in Caia district, Sofala Province, after being found in
possession of cannabis.[1]The detention happened on that week’s Sunday.[1]Both men were held together in the same possession case in Caia district.[1]
Officers seized 25 Kg of cannabis sativa from the two men.[1]The report
identifies the seized drug as cannabis sativa and gives the name soruma in
parentheses.[1]The 25 Kg total is stated as cannabis sativa alone.[1]
Caia is the district where both the detention and the seizure took place.[1]Sofala is the province named as containing Caia district for this detention.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The article gives no calendar date for the Caia detention, only neste domingo alongside a 14 February 2022 publication, so 13 February 2022 is used as the incident date.
The names, ages and other identifying details of the two detained men were not published.
The detaining unit or agency for the Caia detention was not specified; SERNIC was named only for the separate Mocuba heroin operation.
No charges, custody decision or court outcome for the Caia detention were reported.
Only one accessible opened source was found for the Caia seizure; Facebook snippets repeating the same 25 kg Caia claim could not be opened as evidence.
The same page also reports separate heroin seizures, 102 Kg in Mocuba and a truck at the Mozambique-South Africa border, left out here as different events.
Mozambique's Republican Police detained two people, one Mozambican and one Tanzanian, with 48 kilograms of cannabis sativa, known as suruma, packed into bundles of used clothes and bound for Tanzania. A Maputo police spokesperson said the haul was part of a larger trafficking network and that investigations were continuing.
SERNIC detained four Mozambican nationals in Pemba on 22 June 2024 with 14 kg of hashish found in two vehicles. The case has been sent to the Attorney General's Office while the accused deny involvement and the drug's origin remains unknown.
Police in Chimoio, Manica province, detained four people aged 25 to 45, two of them women, and found 14 kg of cannabis sativa, locally called soruma. The officers said the group tried to bribe them with 21,000 meticais, and the file was sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office with a separate corruption case.
SERNIC officers in Sofala detained two FADM soldiers in Manga, Beira, seizing one kilogram of cannabis sativa known locally as suruma and intended for Dondo. The men, aged 29 and 32, were held for legal proceedings while police searched for their supplier.