Over 300 kg of cannabis seized at Malanville ferry landing; one held

Open questions the AI reported

• The headline gives more than 300 kg of Indian hemp while the text describes more than 300 slabs (plaquettes) hidden in sacks and gives no weight per slab; the 300 kg figure is recorded as the outlet's stated headline figure.
• No charge was reported: the arrested man was handed to the courts and expected to appear before the Criet, so no prosecution outcome is known.
• The courier who dived into the river escaped and was not named; only one man was held.
• Only one opened source could be found; searches for an official police statement or a second outlet's account returned nothing.
• No figure was published for the value of the consignment or for the number of sacks.
• The article mentions a separate earlier seizure of about fifteen bags of soybeans bound for Niger in the same area, which is a different matter left out of this report.
• Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Nouvelle Tribune: Police at Benin's Malanville border police station stopped a cannabis shipment at the Tounga-Léda ferry landing in northern Benin on Saturday 12 April 2025.
• Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Nouvelle Tribune: Officers found more than 300 slabs of the drug hidden in sacks that were being taken to Niger from Ghana by way of Togo.
• Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Nouvelle Tribune: Two men were caught at the riverbank as they tried to cross in a motorised canoe.
• Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Nouvelle Tribune: One of them threw himself into the water as officers approached and escaped.
• Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Nouvelle Tribune: A source close to the investigation said the arrested man is known in the region as a wrestler.
• Left out, as its quotation was not found in La Nouvelle Tribune: The seizure was part of a wider operation launched by the Malanville station against illicit cross-border trafficking.