{"id":177392,"date":"2024-07-27T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T19:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pres-boakai-preaches-unity-and-progress-at-liberias-177th-independence-celebration\/"},"modified":"2024-07-27T21:16:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T19:16:29","slug":"liberia-pres-boakai-preaches-unity-and-progress-at-liberias-177th-independence-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pres-boakai-preaches-unity-and-progress-at-liberias-177th-independence-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Pres. Boakai Preaches Unity and Progress At Liberia&#8217;s 177th Independence Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In an address marking Liberia&#8217;s 177th Independence Day, President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has emphasized the need for genuine freedom and inclusivity, urging citizens to work together to overcome the nation&#8217;s challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Speaking at the Centennial Pavilion on Friday, July 26, 2023, President Boakai reflected on the sacrifices of Liberia&#8217;s founding fathers and champions of democracy. He stated, &#8220;As we celebrate the 177th anniversary of our independence, we honor and remember the sacrifices of those&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407270019.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>In an address marking Liberia&#8217;s 177th Independence Day, President Joseph Nyumah Boakai has emphasized the need for genuine freedom and inclusivity, urging citizens to work together to overcome the nation&#8217;s challenges. Speaking at the Centennial Pavilion on Friday, July 26, 2023, President Boakai reflected on the sacrifices of Liberia&#8217;s founding fathers and champions of democracy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177393,"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":[49163,258,256,7324,13224,7690,4712,1107,8536,257,11661,6911,943,254,4019],"class_list":["post-177392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-177th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-celebration","tag-independence","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-preaches","tag-pres","tag-progress","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unity"],"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\/177392","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=177392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}