$50 million cocaine-laden ship seized

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Ghanaian authorities have impounded a South American ship carrying 400 kilogrammes (880 pounds) of cocaine and arrested its crew, the nation's anti-narcotics agency said Thursday. "It has a street value of about US$50 million," said the statement by the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) seen by AFP. "The vessel had been monitored at the high seas and when she got into the Ghanaian waters the Ghana navy and NACOB officers arrested and escorted her to the Sekondi Naval Base," it said. Ghana was investigating the case, it added.

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