153 kg of cannabis seized from an abandoned tricycle in Kafountine
Gendarmes in Kafountine, Ziguinchor region, found 153 kg of chanvre indien in a tricycle abandoned near the town's lycée on the night of 27 August 2025. The driver fled on foot and the gendarmerie opened an investigation to identify him.
🇸🇳 Kabar quarter, Kafountine, Bignona department, Ziguinchor region · Senegal
The operation took place on the night of Wednesday 27 August 2025.[1]No
arrest was reported: the rider escaped and the gendarmes were still trying to
identify him.[2]
Officers found 153 kilograms of chanvre indien, the local French term for Indian
hemp, packed in black waterproof sacks inside the vehicle.[3]They seized the
blue tricycle along with the drugs.[3]The seizure was made in Kabar, an
outlying quarter of the commune of Kafountine.[3]Investigators were still
searching for the owner of the load.[2]
The authorities say Senegalese law punishes drug trafficking severely with heavy
prison terms and the systematic confiscation of the means used to transport it.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Cannabis
153 kg
Agency type
Gendarmerie
Activity
Trafficking
Setting
Prison
Case stage
Under investigation
Sources
Senegosenego.comFRPatrouille nocturne à Kafountine : Comment les gendarmes de Kafountine ont intercepté 153 kg de chanvre indien
No arrest was reported; the rider escaped and the gendarmerie was still trying to identify him.
No value, plant count or number of suspects was published, so no valuation or plant figure is recorded.
La Nouvelle Tribune and APS date the operation to Wednesday evening; the Wednesday in question is 27 August 2025, as Senego and Nettali state explicitly.
APS and La Nouvelle Tribune describe a patrol that gave chase, while Nettali describes a routine checkpoint the rider tried to evade; the reports agree that he fled and abandoned the load.
A separate seizure of 10 kg at the Kafountine fishing quay on 31 August 2025 is a different event and is left out.
Pressafrik reprints the APS dispatch word for word and adds no separate reporting, so it is not cited.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Agence de presse sénégalaise: Gendarmes of the Kafountine brigade in Senegal's Ziguinchor region chased a motorbike-tricycle carrying cannabis near the town's lycée in the night of Wednesday 27 August 2025.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Senego: The driver jumped from the tricycle as the patrol closed in and ran off into the dark, leaving the vehicle and its load behind.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Senego: The patrol was led by Adjudant-chef Coly Ngom.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Agence de presse sénégalaise: The gendarmerie described the stop as a security sweep carried out on Wednesday at about 22:30.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Nettali.com: Nettali gives a different account of the stop, saying the gendarmes had set up a routine checkpoint at the entrance to the commune when the tricycle rider tried to evade the check and fled after a chase.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Nouvelle Tribune: Southern Senegal is regularly described as a transit zone for chanvre indien trafficking, and gendarmerie and customs operations there have seized large cargoes in recent months.
Gendarmes in Nianing seized 205 kg of cannabis found on the beach near the RIU Baobab hotel on 30 October 2026. The drugs were secured for court proceedings while an investigation was opened to trace the maritime supply chain.
Senegal's Thiès Regional Narcotics Brigade seized five packages of cannabis weighing 160.75 kg between Mbaling and Sinthiou Mbadane. Police said people fled during the operation, but the reports give no exact operation date or number of suspects.
Senegalese customs officers seized 10 kg of "skunk" hashish on 12 October 2026 at the Port of Dakar, hidden in 20 sachets inside two tyres in a container from a North American country declared as carrying only vehicles. The customs service valued the haul at 120 million CFA francs.
On 3 October 2026, urban security officers from Dakar's central police station arrested two men in Keur Massar and seized 18 kg of cannabis from bags in a living room after surveillance on a suspected trafficking network.
