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Monrovia, Liberia - On the streets of Liberia's capital, the signs of the kush crisis are increasingly hard to miss. Young people gather in neighbourhoods where families say addiction has pulled children away from schoo…
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Monrovia, Liberia - On the streets of Liberia's capital, the signs of the kush crisis are increasingly hard to miss. Young people gather in neighbourhoods where families say addiction has pulled children away from schoo…
Al Jazeera Online · 1 Aug 2026
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The Liberian Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gregory Coleman, has confirmed the seizure of two consignments of cocaine at a press conference held yesterday, July 30, 2026, at the Ministry of Information in Monrovia.…
The NEWS · 31 Jul 2026
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MONROVIA -- Without naming a single name, Liberia's Inspector General told the nation Thursday that its record cocaine scandal was "sanctioned" from the top of government. In the same breath, he accused journalists of t…
allAfrica · 31 Jul 2026
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Monrovia, Liberia - On the streets of Liberia's capital, the signs of the kush crisis are increasingly hard to miss. Young people gather in neighbourhoods where families say addiction has pulled children away from schoo…
Al Jazeera Online · 1 Aug 2026
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The Liberian Inspector General of Police (IGP), Gregory Coleman, has confirmed the seizure of two consignments of cocaine at a press conference held yesterday, July 30, 2026, at the Ministry of Information in Monrovia.…
The NEWS · 31 Jul 2026
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MONROVIA -- Without naming a single name, Liberia's Inspector General told the nation Thursday that its record cocaine scandal was "sanctioned" from the top of government. In the same breath, he accused journalists of t…
allAfrica · 31 Jul 2026
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President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. has taken his strongest action yet in the country's escalating war against transnational narcotics trafficking, dismissing, suspending and ordering criminal investigations against a gr…
allAfrica · 31 Jul 2026
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MAMBAH-KABA -- Liberia destroyed the cocaine from its two record seizures on Thursday, and the Ministry of Justice disclosed for the first time how many people the state intends to prosecute over them: 12 charged in the…
allAfrica · 31 Jul 2026
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Monrovia -- The letter from the Executive Mansion arrived Thursday with the flat, procedural language governments use when they want a story to sound routine: the president had "ordered the immediate dismissal, suspensi…
allAfrica · 31 Jul 2026
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President Joseph Nyuma Boakai: "Has strongly condemned drug trafficking, emphasizing that while Liberia is open for business, it is not a haven for criminal networks. He has vowed that Liberia will not be a transit poin…
South Africa Today · 31 Jul 2026
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Monrovia -- Liberian scholar and public speaker Dr. Clarence Pearson has challenged Liberians living abroad to become active partners in rebuilding the nation by reconnecting future generations with their roots, warning…
allAfrica · 30 Jul 2026
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Monrovia -- The Center for Advocacy and Civic Engagement (CFAC) has praised the leadership of the National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia, headed by Chairperson Jonathan K. Weedor, for what it describes as signif…
allAfrica · 30 Jul 2026
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District Number 9 in Nimba County, -- As Liberia marked its 179th Independence Day, Ralph Nemenla Sonkarlay, a prominent son of Electoral District #9, Nimba County, returned to his homeland with a series of community de…
allAfrica · 30 Jul 2026
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Duo -- Boe Town, District Number Two, Nimba County -- Hundreds of citizens of Electoral District Two, Nimba County gathered in jubilant numbers to celebrate Liberia's 179th Independence Anniversary alongside their Repre…
allAfrica · 30 Jul 2026
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