{"id":240482,"date":"2026-08-06T19:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-foreign-ministry-denies-diplomatic-pouch-link-to-cocaine-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T19:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T17:26:06","slug":"liberia-foreign-ministry-denies-diplomatic-pouch-link-to-cocaine-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-foreign-ministry-denies-diplomatic-pouch-link-to-cocaine-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Foreign Ministry Denies Diplomatic Pouch Link to Cocaine Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Liberia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry has rejected accusations that the country&#8217;s diplomatic pouch was used to move narcotics and that the foreign minister signed off on it, calling the claims false and unsupported by any evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The rejection came in a statement issued on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;The Ministry categorically and unequivocally rejects these baseless allegations,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;These accusations are entirely false, unsupported by any credible evidence, and appear calculated to undermine public&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060475.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>Liberia&#8217;s Foreign Ministry has rejected accusations that the country&#8217;s diplomatic pouch was used to move narcotics and that the foreign minister signed off on it, calling the claims false and unsupported by any evidence. The rejection came in a statement issued on Wednesday. &#8220;The Ministry categorically and unequivocally rejects these baseless allegations,&#8221; the statement said. [&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":[258,256,17366,7651,10382,5169,4712,1107,7562,6857,257,55074,5805,254],"class_list":["post-240482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cocaine","tag-denies","tag-diplomatic","tag-foreign","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-link","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-pouch","tag-probe","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240482","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=240482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240482\/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=240482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}