{"id":175961,"date":"2024-07-05T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senators-consider-construction-of-new-capital-city-enforcing-zoning-law-amid-incessant-floods\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:27:06","slug":"liberia-senators-consider-construction-of-new-capital-city-enforcing-zoning-law-amid-incessant-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senators-consider-construction-of-new-capital-city-enforcing-zoning-law-amid-incessant-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senators Consider Construction of New Capital City, Enforcing Zoning Law Amid Incessant Floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Monrovia \u2014 Members of the Liberian Senate are considering a proposal for the construction of a new Liberian capital city and an uncompromising and holistic approach toward addressing consistent and severe flooding which is consistently leading to the loss of lives and properties in Monrovia and other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Flooding in the Liberian capital Monrovia and leeward areas during the rainy season usually displaces thousands of citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Debating a report from the joint committee on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050530.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Members of the Liberian Senate are considering a proposal for the construction of a new Liberian capital city and an uncompromising and holistic approach toward addressing consistent and severe flooding which is consistently leading to the loss of lives and properties in Monrovia and other parts of the country. Flooding in the Liberian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6959,6603,7601,15447,6878,16173,7077,4712,1107,257,9179,254,34944],"class_list":["post-175961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-city","tag-construction","tag-enforcing","tag-floods","tag-incessant","tag-law","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-senators","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zoning"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}