Monrovia, Aug. 18 -- MONROVIA - For weeks, the question hanging over Liberia's largest-ever drug bust was whether anyone would be formally charged at all. That question has now been answered, but the answer has raised a different one: why do the charges stop where they do?

By Rodney D. Sieh, Rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

On July 29, prosecutors filed a charge sheet at the Paynesville City Magisterial Court naming twelve defendants in the case tied to nearly four tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated $317 million seized near Roberts International Airport in July. The document, filed before Stipendiary Magistrate William G. Saygah, lays out prosecutors' account of the operation in more detail than had previously been public. But as...