Liberia, Sept. 16 -- Monrovia- For a few years after 2010, West Africa was, in the words of officials who fought to make it so, a hard place to move cocaine through. That reputation is now being tested harder than at any point in over a decade.

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

In July, Liberian security forces raided a property in Duazon, Margibi County, and pulled out nearly 4 metric tons of cocaine - the largest seizure in the country's history, with an estimated street value that authorities eventually put at US$336 million once the full haul was tallied and burned. Two foreign nationals, a Serbian and a dual Colombian-Spanish citizen, were arrested. It came weeks after a smaller but still significant 237-kilo...