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The Board of Directors of AllAfrica mourns the untimely death of founding member Richard V. Tolbert, Sr. who passed away in Monrovia on September 2nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n “Richard was not only a colleague, but a dear friend, a staunch advocate for Africa’s progress and\u00a0 a respected member of the AllAfrica family”, said Amadou Mahtar Ba, executive chair speaking on behalf of the co-founders. “From Day 1, his intellectual contributions helped shape our organization, and we will miss\u00a0him\u00a0dearly.”<\/p>\n An early enthusiast…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The Board of Directors of AllAfrica mourns the untimely death of founding member Richard V. Tolbert, Sr. who passed away in Monrovia on September 2nd. “Richard was not only a colleague, but a dear friend, a staunch advocate for Africa’s progress and\u00a0 a respected member of the AllAfrica family”, said Amadou Mahtar Ba, executive chair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651827:26588b05acffd5eb60e938ac5fadd079:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,38172,6727,21933,1107,6483,9061,257,9062,27626,254,33635],"class_list":["post-180467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica","tag-board","tag-founding","tag-liberia-news","tag-member","tag-mourns","tag-news","tag-passing","tag-richard","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tolbert"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651827:26588b05acffd5eb60e938ac5fadd079:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180467","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=180467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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