Senegal customs seize cocaine shipment worth over $48m

In a statement, customs police said they seized 365.4 kilogrammes of cocaine in the town of Koupentoum from a lorry travelling from an unspecified "neighbouring" country.

The authorities have made an increasing number of cocaine seizures in recent months from neighbouring countries -- notably Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Mali -- which are reputed to be transit zones for drugs produced in Latin America on their way to Europe.