Overview

• Participants from student unions, faith groups, women’s associations and civil society organizations united nationwide to protest drug abuse and trafficking
• The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency committed full operational support to the march, deploying officers for coordination and fielding over 40 women from its Women’s Association
• President Boakai’s Anti-Drug Action Plan unveiled August 6 introduces measures including fast-tracking of drug cases, mandatory evaluations for LDEA commanders, seizure of trafficker assets and prevention curricula in schools
• Activists escalated calls for high-level accountability by urging the confiscation and auction of properties held by powerful traffickers and enablers to fund rehabilitation programs
• Liberia’s ambassador to Nigeria called for joint ECOWAS efforts to curb cross-border narcotics flows and strengthen regional anti-drug cooperation