Indian police in the southern state of Tamil Nadu arrested three people, including two information technology professionals from Bengaluru, and seized a total of five kilogrammes of cannabis and twenty painkiller tablets suspected to be narcotics, according to local authorities. In a separate operation in Hyderabad, Telangana, two men were taken into custody and officers recovered 77,700 sedative tablets—primarily nitrazepam-based—and 170 bottles of codeine-laced cough syrup, with an estimated street value of one million rupees. Six alleged accomplices remain at large, police said.

Algerian security forces reported dismantling several trafficking networks across the provinces of Annaba, Relizane, and Oran. Sixteen people were arrested and more than 1.5 kilogrammes of cannabis, over 13,000 psychotropic tablets including pregabalin and ecstasy, and forty bottles of a liquid narcotic were confiscated. In Kenya, highway police at the Suo roadblock on the Busia–Kisumu route intercepted two men on a motorcycle carrying 13.9 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa strapped to a passenger’s body and concealed in a travel bag; the Directorate of Criminal Investigations valued the haul at 417,000 shillings.

Nigerian police commands announced a series of breakthroughs. In Yobe State, a suspected drug baron was arrested in Potiskum, yielding cartons of tramadol and Exzol tablets alongside 835,500 naira in suspected proceeds. The raid drew violent resistance from the syndicate, leaving several officers with minor injuries and a police vehicle damaged. A separate intelligence-led operation netted a kidnapping kingpin, Saidu Mohammed, after a victim reported a ten-million-naira ransom demand.

In Edo State, a joint police unit rescued a cattle dealer, Peter Balogun, who had been abducted on 7 July along the Igarra-Auchi Expressway. Sustained drone surveillance and helicopter patrols over the Imoga Forest forced his captors to abandon him on 15 July; he has since been reunited with his family. All operations remain under investigation, and authorities in each jurisdiction stated that efforts to apprehend remaining suspects are ongoing. The reported seizure figures are provisional and subject to forensic confirmation.