Drug and Crime
Liberia: How a Dutch Fugitive Found His Way Through West Africa’s Porous Ports, Borders, Stashing Drugs
Ghana and Liberia sit on the same stretch of West African coast, share the same colonial-era port infrastructure, and now, investigators say, share the same weakness: officials willing to...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: LDEA Testing Clears Malaysia Shipment
Monrovia — A shipment that triggered alarm this weekend over suspected cocaine and heroin has tested negative for narcotics, the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: How South American Cartels Found a New Home on West Africa’s Coastline
Monrovia- For a few years after 2010, West Africa was, in the words of officials who fought to make it so, a hard place...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: LDEA Arrests Woman with US$400 Worth of Marijuana at Karloken Checkpoint in Maryland County
HARPER, Maryland County — The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) has arrested a Liberian woman with four plates of marijuana valued at approximately US$400 at...
Analysis
Liberia: A Mystery Vessel, a Prison, and a Warning Nobody Answered
MONROVIA — There is a version of this story in which the boat behind the Monrovia Central Prison is nothing more than a stray...
Breaking News
BREAKING: Second Mystery Vessel Seized in Liberia, Two Foreign Nationals Held Amid Drug Probe
Liberia's joint security forces are in control of yet another mysterious vessel — this time docked behind the Monrovia Central Prison — where two...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: McGill Rejects Costa’s Drug Cartel Allegation, Demands Evidence
Monrovia — Senator Nathaniel F. McGill has strongly rejected allegations by political commentator Henry Pedro Costa seeking to link him to an alleged drug...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: Pres. Boakai Sacks Justice Minister, Solicitor General Amid $336M Cocaine Bust Probe
Monrovia — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has removed Justice Minister and Attorney General Cllr. N. Oswald Tweh and Solicitor General Cllr. Augustine Fayiah from...
Drug and Crime
Liberia: In US$19m Cocaine Case: 10 Indicted Over 200kg Haul, US$100k Bribe Plot
MONROVIA — A Montserrado County Grand Jury has indicted 10 defendants in connection with the alleged trafficking of a 200-kilogram cocaine shipment through Roberts...
Drug and Crime
One Woman, half a Billion Dollars: The Question Liberia’s Drug Investigation hasn’t Answered
As former President George Weah touches down in Monrovia, the two record-breaking drug busts that started this saga — nearly half a billion dollars...
Legal Issues
Liberia: Ex-VP Jewel Howard Taylor’s Drug Case Delayed as Defense Seeks Medical Records, Cardiologist
MONROVIA — The preliminary hearing in the government’s drug trafficking and money laundering case against former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has been delayed as...