{"id":238957,"date":"2026-07-18T06:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-experts-new-eu-anti-drug-policy-could-put-liberia-under-increased-scrutiny-as-dutch-push-for-sierra-leone-aid-cut-over-fugitive-trafficker\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T06:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:39:02","slug":"sierra-leone-experts-new-eu-anti-drug-policy-could-put-liberia-under-increased-scrutiny-as-dutch-push-for-sierra-leone-aid-cut-over-fugitive-trafficker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-experts-new-eu-anti-drug-policy-could-put-liberia-under-increased-scrutiny-as-dutch-push-for-sierra-leone-aid-cut-over-fugitive-trafficker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone: Experts &#8211; New EU Anti-Drug Policy Could Put Liberia Under Increased Scrutiny As Dutch Push for Sierra Leone Aid Cut Over Fugitive Trafficker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Monrovia \u2014 In the wake of the fallout from the US$19 million cocaine seizure at Roberts International Airport (RIA), the new European Union anti-narcotics strategy is raising fresh questions about whether countries perceived as weak links in the global drug trade could face increased diplomatic, economic, and development pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"84\">The concern comes at a sensitive moment for Liberia. Authorities are still investigating the massive cocaine bust that has drawn international attention and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170281.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 In the wake of the fallout from the US$19 million cocaine seizure at Roberts International Airport (RIA), the new European Union anti-narcotics strategy is raising fresh questions about whether countries perceived as weak links in the global drug trade could face increased diplomatic, economic, and development pressure. The concern comes at a sensitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7828,16017,8021,16953,5060,18632,7393,6572,4712,257,6470,6354,7786,12040,6571,1135,254,19012],"class_list":["post-238957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-antidrug","tag-cut","tag-dutch","tag-experts","tag-fugitive","tag-increased","tag-leone","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-push","tag-put","tag-scrutiny","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238957","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=238957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}