Djibouti police found 500 kg of cocaine disguised as flour in a shipment
from Brazil – in what authorities said on Thursday was their biggest seizure of the drug.
Prosecutor Maki Omar Abdoulkader said the cocaine, with a street value of one billion Djibouti
francs (5.62 million dollars), had been discovered at the main port – a major hub for the Horn of Africa.
($1 = 177.8000 Djibouti francs)
(Reuters/NAN)