Liberia Burns $4 Million Worth of Marijuana

Liberia’s Drug Enforcement Agency destroyed nearly 300 kilograms of marijuana Friday evening in a suburb of the country’s capital, Monrovia.   Part of a new nationwide crackdown on drug traffickers, officials say the drugs were smuggled into the West African country from neighboring Sierra Leone by a member of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s motorcade staff.   The presidential aide, Perry Dolo, used an official vehicle to transport the marijuana. He and at least three other...

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