A clumsy attempt to smuggle over half a ton of cocaine into the African country of Djibouti by disguising the illicit drug as cooking flour has failed to foil the authorities there, resulting in the biggest cocaine bust in the country’s history.

Djibouti police found roughly 1,100 pounds of the drug in a shipment from Brazil.

Prosecutor Maki Omar Abdoulkader said the cocaine had a street value of 1 billion Djibouti francs, or $5.62 million.

The shipment was discovered in the country’s main port, a major shipping hub for the Horn of Africa.

Djibouti, which has a population of roughly 800,000, is strategically located on the Horn of Africa at the narrow passage between the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

The country hosts the United States’s only permanent military facility in Africa, Camp Lemonnier.

Rather than cocaine, Djibouti is better known as a major importer of khat, a chewing-leaf stimulant that is legal in the country.

Source: Mail Online