Mozambique: Announces Drug Trafficking Arrests

Maputo — Mozambique’s Central Office for the Fight against Organised and Transnational Crime (GCCCOT) on Friday announced an offensive against a drug trafficking ring, including Mozambican, Nigerian and Mexican citizens, who had been smuggling illicit drugs into the country via Maputo International Airport.

A GCCCOT release says that a key figure in the ring was a Mozambican woman who was arrested on 2 May. She had been facilitating the entry of foreign traffickers into the country, in…