Mauritania’s National Gendarmerie rapid-intervention unit foiled an attempted cannabis-smuggling run 25 kilometres east of Nouakchott on Wednesday, 23 April 2025.[1] The unit that acted was the Gendarmerie’s Unité d’intervention rapide.[1] Officers stopped a car that had come from the city of Boghé and was travelling toward the capital.[1] Officers arrested the driver of the vehicle at the scene.[1] Later inquiries led to the arrest of the sender of the load, who lives in Boghé, and its intended recipient in Nouakchott.[1]

The operation followed in-depth field investigations by the gendarmerie.[1] After stopping the car, officers carried out a thorough search of the vehicle.[1] They found the drug carefully concealed inside the car.[1] The gendarmerie identified the seized drug as cannabis and described the haul as an important quantity.[1] The three arrests linked the load’s dispatch in Boghé to its intended receipt in Nouakchott.[1]