Off the wire
• China punishes damage of cultural heritages, revolutionary site  • Senior Burundian army officer shot dead by soldier  • Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista believed to have fled to NY  • Montenegro on track to become NATO's newest member: Stoltenberg  • Turkey awaits results of study by U.S. for safe zone in Syria  • Sudan opposition leader returns to Khartoum  • Spotlight: Rebel infighting intensifies as Qaida militants get more isolated  • Alibaba's financial arm to acquire MoneyGram  • Erasmus+ enables more Europeans to study, train, work and volunteer abroad in 2015: annual report  • Latest charter flights to Sansha make trips shorter, easier for holiday makers  
You are here: 　 Home

Zambia arrests over 5,900 in drugs crackdown in 2016

Xinhua, January 27, 2017 Adjust font size:

Zambia arrested an increasing number of people for drug-related offenses in 2016 compared to the previous year, its agency responsible for drugs management said Thursday.

The Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) said the number of people arrested last year climbed to 5,901, a 9.8-percent increase from 5,374 in 2015.

The figure included 5,480 males and 421 females. Among them 271 were juveniles, it said in its annual report for 2016.

The agency further said the number of foreign nationals arrested for drug-related offenses dropped by 33.3 percent to 140 from 210 in the previous year.

The agency also seized about 59 tonnes of cannabis during the year, representing a 55.3-percent reduction, among other drugs including miraa, cocaine and pseudoephedrine. Enditem