{"id":181573,"date":"2024-09-30T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-president-boakai-urges-global-support-for-liberias-bid-for-un-security-council-seat\/"},"modified":"2024-09-30T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T10:00:57","slug":"liberia-president-boakai-urges-global-support-for-liberias-bid-for-un-security-council-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-president-boakai-urges-global-support-for-liberias-bid-for-un-security-council-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: President Boakai Urges Global Support for Liberia&#8217;s Bid for UN Security Council Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">The President of the Republic of Liberia, Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has delivered an impassioned plea at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The Liberian leader called upon the international community to support Liberia&#8217;s candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2026-2027 term. President Boakai&#8217;s request is not just symbolic; it is grounded in Liberia&#8217;s historical legacy and its growing role in both regional and global security arenas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"89\">Speaking to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409300189.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>The President of the Republic of Liberia, Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., has delivered an impassioned plea at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The Liberian leader called upon the international community to support Liberia&#8217;s candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council for the 2026-2027 term. President Boakai&#8217;s request is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181574,"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":[258,256,10798,7324,6158,6212,4712,1107,8536,257,2450,8545,4586,254,6096,6810],"class_list":["post-181573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bid","tag-boakai","tag-council","tag-global","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-president","tag-seat","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-support","tag-urges"],"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\/181573","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=181573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}