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The federal Police of Ethiopia captured 3.9 kilograms of cocaine this week from nationals of Brazil, Bolivia and Ghana at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Ethiopian police and customs officers seized a truck carrying cannabis and trying to smuggle it to the neighboring Kenya.

The Customs Commission of Ethiopia has confiscated worth 1.6 billion-birr ($56.3 million) items from contraband traders during the fiscal year ended July 7, 2019.

The Customs Commission of Ethiopia has collected around 56.7 billion birr (close to $2 billion) from international trade taxation, trade misinvoicing and confiscation of goods from smugglers during the first nine months of current Ethiopian calendar started July 8, 2018.

Ethiopian police have captured 18 kilograms and 670 grams of cocaine over the past two months from twenty individuals. The drug dealers were nationals of eight countries including Ethiopia.

The narcotic division of Federal Police of Ethiopia has arrested 56 foreigners from 15 different countries involved in cocaine and cannabis trafficking.