Tag: Roberts International Airport
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🇱🇷 Liberia Receives First 20 Deportees as U.S. Begins Plan to Send Up to 1,200 Third-Country Migrants
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 21, 2026 — Liberia has received the first group of migrants deported from the United States under a controversial new third-country transfer arrangement that could bring as many as 1,200 people to Liberia over the next 12 months. The first batch of 20 deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport on Thursday,…
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🇱🇷 Liberia’s Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor Charged in Transnational Drug Trafficking Probe
MONROVIA, Liberia — August 19, 2026 — Liberia’s former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor has been charged with drug trafficking, money laundering and other offenses as part of an investigation into an alleged transnational narcotics network, according to Liberia’s government. (Reuters) The development marks a dramatic escalation in Liberia’s ongoing investigation into a major cocaine trafficking…