RSF: Huge contraband seizure in South Darfur

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in South Darfur says that it has seized 9,000 cannabis cobs and 240 bottles of whiskey in the South Darfur capital of Nyala. Police in North Darfur rounded up a gang of nine thieves.

According to Col Ahmed Dagalo, commander of the RSF in South Darfur, the seizure at the entrances to the neighbourhoods of Buram and Domaya, also included 130 cartons of forbidden creams, and 50 packets of whiskey packed in plastic bags.

Sudan is the largest producer of cannabis in Africa according to the General Office for Combating Drugs in Khartoum. The trade of bango, as cannabis is called in the country, exceeded $7 billion between 2015 and 2016, while its use grew by 34 per cent. Most of the lucrative cash crop is grown in El Radoom locality in South Darfur, an area of 34, 000 square kilometres, roughly the size of Portugal.

Thieves

On Monday, Maj Gen Emad Salman, head of the North Darfur state police announced the arrest of a criminal gang of nine people, who stand accused of burgling shops in the sGrand Market and other sub-markets of the capital El Fasher by night, as well as allegedly rustling cattle in places such as the Abu Shouk camp market.

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