{"id":205439,"date":"2025-08-25T10:39:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-drugs-govt-declares-war-on-drugs\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T10:39:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T08:39:12","slug":"liberia-drugs-govt-declares-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-drugs-govt-declares-war-on-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Drugs &#8211; Govt Declares War On Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The Government of Liberia has declared the fight against drug abuse a national emergency, calling on all citizens to join efforts in combating what it describes as a growing pandemic that threatens families, communities, and the nation&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Speaking at the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism (MICAT) press briefing on Tuesday, the Deputy Minister of Information announced that the government is preparing for a nationwide Anti-Drug Action Day on August 7, intended to rally both&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508250062.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>The Government of Liberia has declared the fight against drug abuse a national emergency, calling on all citizens to join efforts in combating what it describes as a growing pandemic that threatens families, communities, and the nation&#8217;s future. Speaking at the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism (MICAT) press briefing on Tuesday, the Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205440,"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":[258,256,7030,6614,4357,4712,1107,257,254,6618],"class_list":["post-205439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-drugs","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"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\/205439","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=205439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}