Liberia, Feb. 13 -- MONROVIA, Liberia- One accused trafficker has been released on bail and other cases look set to collapse as funding for the prosecution of human trafficking cases has been slashed.

By Anthony Stephens with New Narratives

In the run up to elections the Weah government slashed the $230,000 set aside for the anti-trafficking unit in the national 2023 budget to just $15,000. Anti-trafficking was one of many budget lines that were cut as the government approached elections with a $25.5 million funding shortfall.

"The elections and civilservants'salaries were key critical issues that government focused on," said Herodotus Emmanuel Payne, Jr., a spokesperson for the former Weah administration's Ministry of Finance, by What...