{"id":217300,"date":"2025-12-19T15:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ldea-set-for-major-reform-under-new-anti-drugs-action-plan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T13:08:06","slug":"liberia-ldea-set-for-major-reform-under-new-anti-drugs-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ldea-set-for-major-reform-under-new-anti-drugs-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LDEA Set for Major Reform Under New Anti-Drugs Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">In a decisive move to protect the nation&#8217;s youth and dismantle transnational criminal networks, the Government of Liberia has unveiled a sweeping &#8220;National Action Plan on Anti-Drugs.&#8221; The initiative, backed by a massive budget increase and a shift toward high-tech enforcement, marks a turning point for the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Speaking in a recent interview, the LDEA Officer-in-Charge (OIC), Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Fitzgerald T. M. Biago, detailed a vision of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190331.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>In a decisive move to protect the nation&#8217;s youth and dismantle transnational criminal networks, the Government of Liberia has unveiled a sweeping &#8220;National Action Plan on Anti-Drugs.&#8221; The initiative, backed by a massive budget increase and a shift toward high-tech enforcement, marks a turning point for the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA). Speaking in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217301,"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":[6394,258,256,31161,25767,4712,1107,7373,257,7586,6099,7106,254],"class_list":["post-217300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antidrugs","tag-ldea","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-major","tag-news","tag-plan","tag-reform","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/217300","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=217300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}