Senegalese navy seizes 8.37 tonnes of hashish off Dakar
The Senegalese navy stopped a Togolese-flagged boat 140 kilometres from Dakar on 6 June 2021 and escorted it to a naval base, where officers found 8.37 tonnes of hashish in 279 bags alongside sacks of plaster. Seven crew members were on board.
The Senegalese navy intercepted a boat carrying cannabis resin off the
country’s Atlantic coast on Sunday 6 June 2021.[1][2]The vessel flew a
Togolese flag and was stopped 140 kilometres from Dakar with seven crew members
on board.[1][2]
Officers escorted the boat to a naval base in Dakar, where they found 8.37
tonnes of hashish divided between 279 bags.[1][2]The boat was also carrying
sacks of plaster.[1][2][3]The armed forces ministry announced the seizure in a
statement on the Monday and gave no street value for the drugs.[1]
The vessel was the cargo ship ASSO 6, IMO 7946875, 66 metres long and 8 metres wide, sailing under the Togolese flag.[3]Maritime tracking put ASSO 6 at the Moroccan port of Safi on 29 May 2021, after it reached Nouadhibou in Mauritania on 22 April, and it was expected at Abidjan on 13 June.[3]
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The exact interception point beyond 140 kilometres from Dakar was not specified, so the pin is the Dakar coast with regional precision.
The ministry gave no street value for the drugs and the reports name no arrests, charges or nationalities of the seven crew.
The Organization for World Peace account notes a separate 17-tonne cannabis resin seizure in Niger earlier in 2021, a different event left out here.
Dakaractu gives the haul as 8.3 tonnes of cannabis resin, while the sources already cited give 8.37 tonnes in 279 bags; the report keeps the earlier figure.
The article describes the interception only as "au large de Dakar" and does not confirm the 140-kilometre distance already recorded.
The article also mentions 17 tonnes and 5 tonnes of hashish intercepted in Niger and Mali between March and May 2021, separate events left out of this report.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in DAKARACTU.COM: Officers assessed the haul at 8.3 tonnes of cannabis resin 24 hours after the interception.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in DAKARACTU.COM: Its seven crew members were four Indians, a Mauritanian, a Syrian and a Libyan, and the navy took them into custody.
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.
