Burkina Faso’s national police seized nearly 700 kg of chanvre indien, the French term for cannabis, in the Hauts-Bassins region during a crackdown on illicit drug trafficking.[1] The seizure involved 698 slabs of chanvre indien weighing about 760 kg, along with several other objects.[1]

The suspect acted alone, hiding the drugs by exchanging them for mopeds where purchases or deliveries took place.[1] He obtained his goods from outside the country and moved them inside Burkina Faso by bypassing checkpoints on tracks through areas described as dangerous.[1] He sold the cannabis in certain border areas and used the money to buy motorcycles that he then exchanged with suppliers living abroad.[1] He also used the proceeds to stock commercial premises, including clothing shops he had set up.[1]

With help from residents, the Kourouma district police station and local Volunteers for the Defence of the Homeland auxiliaries, the Hauts-Bassins regional judicial police arrested the suspected trafficker.[1]