Drug and firearms law in Liberia: statutes on record and in force

Liberia, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2005. It is not named in either FATF list. Where a field could not be sourced it is reported as unsourced rather than left to be inferred.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Liberia picked out — Fig. — Liberia in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Liberia is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 2004 and the most recent from 2005.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	16 Sep 2005	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	22 Sep 2004	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	16 Sep 2005	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	22 Sep 2004	Chapter XVIII-12-c

What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Liberia: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Liberia's national implementing legislation is not yet confirmed against a citable national register. The convention and monitoring records above carry named sources and check dates; this field does not, so it states nothing rather than something unsourced.

Enforcement authorities

2 bodies are named in the record for Liberia, each confirmed on Liberia's own government domain. The division of mandate is what decides where a case can actually be taken: interception, investigation and prosecution are three different powers, rarely held by one body.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Drug Enforcement Agency	dedicated drug-control mandate	moj.gov.lr
Liberia Revenue Authority	customs and border control	revenue.lra.gov.lr

Ratification sequence

A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Liberia came to these instruments over 1 years, beginning with the UNTOC in 2004 and ending with the UNCAC in 2005. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 2 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 17.

Liberia became a party to the 1988 Convention in 2005, 17 years after it was adopted — slower than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

On coverage, Liberia is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Within Africa the dataset holds 53 jurisdictions, of which 6 are currently under FATF increased monitoring.

Position on the trafficking corridors

Liberia sits on the west african corridor, one of the six corridors profiled here. What the corridor meets at this leg is the record set out above.

The West African corridor — 12 jurisdictions, carrying cocaine. The legs either side of Liberia in the reporting are Sierra Leone and Ghana. Across the corridor as a whole, 9 of the 12 legs are party to all four instruments, 3 sit outside the Firearms Protocol, 1 carry no confirmed national instrument , and 1 is under increased monitoring. Liberia carries one of those gaps. The profile for this corridor compares all of its legs on the same three checks.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Liberia is recorded as Not listed . A jurisdiction can enter or leave either list at any plenary, so this line is dated rather than settled. The mechanics of listing and delisting are on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Liberia

Which drug-control conventions has Liberia ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 16 Sep 2005, the UNTOC on 22 Sep 2004, the UNCAC on 16 Sep 2005, the Firearms Protocol on 22 Sep 2004.

Is Liberia on the FATF grey list?

No. Liberia appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.

What national drug legislation is on record for Liberia?

None confirmed against a citable national register yet. The dates and listing status on this page are sourced; this field is not, so it stays empty.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

None yet, which is why no instrument is named. The registers searched for Liberia were the UNODC legal library, which files legislation by jurisdiction, and the national government and parliamentary hosts reachable under its own country-code domain. Neither produced a document that identifies an instrument, so this record cites none.

What is source tier B, and why is this record in it?

Tier B means the treaty record is confirmed at the depositary but no national instrument has been confirmed against a citable register. It is a statement about this dataset's sourcing, not about Liberia's statute book, which may well contain instruments that are simply not published where they can be cited from.

Why does the ratification date matter?

The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Liberia's earliest of these commitments dates from 2004, its most recent from 2005; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.

Sources

Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.