Liberia: Weah's Comeback Speech Lands in the Middle of Liberia's Biggest Drug Scandal Yet

Liberia: Weah's Comeback Speech Lands in the Middle of Liberia's Biggest Drug Scandal Yet

[FrontPageAfrica] SPRINGFIELD, Pa -- Former Liberian President George Weah used a keynote address to the diaspora wing of his party to recommit to a 2029 run for the presidency, telling supporters in Springfield, Pennsylvania, that the Boakai government had been "compromised by a cartel of drug traffickers." The claim arrives in the middle of a six-week-old cocaine scandal that has produced two record seizures, a string of arrests, a fired police intelligence chief, a viral video accusing the president's family of taking bribes, and a July

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