{"id":208675,"date":"2025-10-01T12:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-anc-youth-leader-urges-u-s-embassy-to-help-combat-liberias-worsening-drug-crisis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:11:04","slug":"liberia-anc-youth-leader-urges-u-s-embassy-to-help-combat-liberias-worsening-drug-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-anc-youth-leader-urges-u-s-embassy-to-help-combat-liberias-worsening-drug-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: ANC Youth Leader Urges U.S. Embassy to Help Combat Liberia&#8217;s Worsening Drug Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Monrovia \u2014 Alieu Kiadii, Secretary-General of the Indomitable National Youth Congress-ANC and political activist, has called on the United States Embassy near Monrovia to urgently intervene in Liberia&#8217;s escalating drug crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking at a press conference in Monrovia today, Kiadii warned that the nation&#8217;s youth are &#8220;chemically enslaved&#8221; as communities collapse under addiction, while government response remains inadequate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">&#8220;From the ghettos of Montserrado to the slums of Buchanan, the spread of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510010120.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 Alieu Kiadii, Secretary-General of the Indomitable National Youth Congress-ANC and political activist, has called on the United States Embassy near Monrovia to urgently intervene in Liberia&#8217;s escalating drug crisis. Speaking at a press conference in Monrovia today, Kiadii warned that the nation&#8217;s youth are &#8220;chemically enslaved&#8221; as communities collapse under addiction, while government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208676,"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":[258,256,5006,12857,3723,6949,1946,7079,4712,1107,8536,257,254,2282,6810,9273,6276],"class_list":["post-208675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anc","tag-combat","tag-crisis","tag-drug","tag-embassy","tag-leader","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-urges","tag-worsening","tag-youth"],"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\/208675","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=208675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}