Former Liberian President George Weah used a keynote address to the diaspora wing of his party to recommit to a 2029 run for the presidency, telling supporters in Springfield, Pennsylvania, that the Boakai government had been “compromised by a cartel of drug traffickers.” The claim arrives in the middle of a six-week-old cocaine scandal that has produced two record seizures, a string of arrests, a fired police intelligence chief, a viral video accusing the president’s family of taking bribes, and a July 26 Independence Day statement from Weah’s own party demanding an international probe. The underlying scandal is real and well documented; the specific allegations against the president’s family remain unverified.
