A mayor and his driver have been arrested in a desert in northern Niger with more than 200kg of cocaine in their vehicle, police say.
The two suspects, who have not been named, were allegedly transporting the drug to Libya after it had been smuggled into the country from Mali.
Niger’s drug policing agency said it was the largest quantity of cocaine seized in the West African country.
Drug smuggling and police seizures are becoming more common in the region.
Niger’s Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking said on Wednesday that police had been aware of a large quantity of cocaine being transported through the country towards Libya, and had been following the trail.
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