{"id":204993,"date":"2025-08-19T10:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-prominent-say-no-to-drugs-campaigner-resigns-cites-stress-and-internal-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:27:12","slug":"liberia-prominent-say-no-to-drugs-campaigner-resigns-cites-stress-and-internal-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-prominent-say-no-to-drugs-campaigner-resigns-cites-stress-and-internal-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Prominent &#8216;Say No to Drugs&#8217; Campaigner Resigns, Cites Stress and Internal Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Monrovia \u2014 One of the key campaigners behind the recent &#8220;Say No To Drugs&#8221; initiative, Sonnie Kollie, has publicly announced her resignation from the campaign. Kollie, who played a significant role in organizing the nationwide movement, cited immense stress and what she described as &#8220;one-sided stories&#8221; being spread about her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In a candid Facebook post on Monday, August 18, 2025, Kollie wrote, &#8220;I am out of the SAY NO TO DRUGS CAMPAIGN. Let GOD BE THE JUDGE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">The resignation comes amidst what&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508190088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 One of the key campaigners behind the recent &#8220;Say No To Drugs&#8221; initiative, Sonnie Kollie, has publicly announced her resignation from the campaign. Kollie, who played a significant role in organizing the nationwide movement, cited immense stress and what she described as &#8220;one-sided stories&#8221; being spread about her. In a candid Facebook post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,15304,5260,2444,6614,7961,4712,1107,257,22489,8623,254,14274],"class_list":["post-204993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaigner","tag-cites","tag-conflict","tag-drugs","tag-internal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-prominent","tag-resigns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stress"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}