The M’Bout detachment of Mauritania’s National Gendarmerie, attached to the Kaedi gendarmerie battalion, detained four people in the commune of Foum Gleita on suspicion of consuming alcohol and drugs inside a house in the village.[1] Foum Gleita is a commune in M’Bout district in the southern Gorgol region, and the house where the four were held was inside that village.[2]

In a statement issued on Thursday evening, the gendarmerie said officers seized 24 bottles of whisky, 22 small packs of Indian hemp, a term used in Mauritania for cannabis, and 48 rolls of hashish in the operation.[1] A second Mauritanian outlet reported the same operation with the same figures, confirming 24 whisky bottles, 22 small cannabis packs and 48 hashish rolls seized by the National Gendarmerie in Foum Gleita.[2] The gendarmerie described the operation as part of its continuing national effort to combat drugs and psychoactive substances, limit their spread and strengthen security across the country.[1] Officers counted the cannabis separately from the alcohol as 22 small packs of Indian hemp and 48 rolls of hashish, rather than giving a combined weight for the seizure.[1]