{"id":239975,"date":"2026-07-31T07:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-embracing-media-as-allies-in-liberias-war-against-illicit-drugs-a-pathway-to-a-brighter-future\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:11:57","slug":"liberia-embracing-media-as-allies-in-liberias-war-against-illicit-drugs-a-pathway-to-a-brighter-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-embracing-media-as-allies-in-liberias-war-against-illicit-drugs-a-pathway-to-a-brighter-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Embracing Media As Allies in Liberia&#8217;s War Against Illicit Drugs &#8211; A Pathway to a Brighter Future:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">President Joseph Nyuma Boakai: &#8220;Has strongly condemned drug trafficking, emphasizing that while Liberia is open for business, it is not a haven for criminal networks. He has vowed that Liberia will not be a transit point or warehouse for drugs and that all involved, regardless of status, will be pursued. Furthermore, he has promised a relentless, non-selective fight against drugs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">President Ronald Reagan on Government and Media Cooperation. In a 1988 address to media executives, President Ronald&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607300607.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>President Joseph Nyuma Boakai: &#8220;Has strongly condemned drug trafficking, emphasizing that while Liberia is open for business, it is not a haven for criminal networks. He has vowed that Liberia will not be a transit point or warehouse for drugs and that all involved, regardless of status, will be pursued. Furthermore, he has promised a [&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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,9546,14213,6614,29209,5760,9926,4712,1107,8536,4959,257,30567,254,6618],"class_list":["post-239975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allies","tag-brighter","tag-drugs","tag-embracing","tag-future","tag-illicit","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-media","tag-news","tag-pathway","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239975","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=239975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239975\/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=239975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}