Monrovia, July 4 -- The Trump administration's sweeping freezes on foreign aid continue to undermine a range of programs in heavily aid dependent Liberia. The cuts to health, education and agriculture have received substantial attention but cuts to the country's anti-human trafficking work has so far gone unnoticed.

Now experts are warning the cuts, combined with low levels of funding from the administration of President Joseph Boakai, could deal a big blow to Liberia's anti-human trafficking efforts, just as climate change and growing rural poverty are making more people vulnerable to traffickers.

"Of course it's a big blow," said Adolphus Satiah, former head of secretariat of the anti-human trafficking unit at the Labor Ministry und...