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Liberia has always prided itself on being a home for the tired, the displaced, and the hopeful. That spirit — the open hand, the open border — is part of our DNA. But in 2026, a humanitarian principle has begun to curdle into something else. Our borders, meant to welcome life, have become a high-speed funnel for something far darker.<\/p>\n
What begins as “people looking for life” is too often ending as narcotics in transit, fraud rings, and cash-driven criminal economies that bloom where enforcement…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Liberia has always prided itself on being a home for the tired, the displaced, and the hopeful. That spirit — the open hand, the open border — is part of our DNA. But in 2026, a humanitarian principle has begun to curdle into something else. Our borders, meant to welcome life, have become a high-speed […]<\/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":[258,256,8490,6604,12197,4712,1107,8536,9493,257,55037,5983,254,16838],"class_list":["post-240295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borders","tag-chaos","tag-door","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-mercy","tag-news","tag-oped","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today","tag-window"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240295","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=240295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240295\/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=240295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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