{"id":240255,"date":"2026-08-03T19:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/liberia-weah-urges-boakai-to-match-cdcs-drug-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T19:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:07:09","slug":"liberia-weah-urges-boakai-to-match-cdcs-drug-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/liberia-weah-urges-boakai-to-match-cdcs-drug-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Weah Urges Boakai to Match CDC&#8217;s Drug Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Stephen G. Fellajuah \u2014 Former President George Manneh Weah has called on the Boakai administration to take decisive action against Liberia&#8217;s growing drug crisis, saying narcotics pose a serious threat to society and require a firm government response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking on the sidelines of the CDC-USA Convention in Philadelphia over the weekend, Weah said he expects the current administration to confront the problem with the same determination his government demonstrated while in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;Drugs in any&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608030512.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen G. Fellajuah \u2014 Former President George Manneh Weah has called on the Boakai administration to take decisive action against Liberia&#8217;s growing drug crisis, saying narcotics pose a serious threat to society and require a firm government response. Speaking on the sidelines of the CDC-USA Convention in Philadelphia over the weekend, Weah said he expects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,7324,44642,14409,6949,415,4712,8778,257,254,6810,12734],"class_list":["post-240255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-cdcs","tag-crackdown","tag-drug","tag-egypt-news","tag-liberia","tag-match","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-weah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240255","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240255\/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=240255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}