/ 17 November 1999

MOZ TO CRACK DOWN ON SMUGGLING

OVER 100 para-military customs officers graduated from advanced training at Boane, 30km from Maputo, Mozambique, this week as part of the country’s crackdown on contraband smuggling. The 104 officers are the second batch of new customs officers trained at the centre this year to upgrade security at the country’s border posts with South Africa, Swaziland, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. The clamp down has already seen a series of large busts at border posts, with customs officials seizing 36 boxes of assorted medicines, 233 flasks of assorted medical liquids and 800 loose pills in the northern province of Nampula on Monday.