{"id":183693,"date":"2024-11-01T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-intl-community-recognize-speaker-koffas-legitimacy-despite-house-division\/"},"modified":"2024-11-01T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T23:09:08","slug":"liberia-govt-intl-community-recognize-speaker-koffas-legitimacy-despite-house-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-intl-community-recognize-speaker-koffas-legitimacy-despite-house-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Govt, Int&#8217;l Community Recognize Speaker Koffa&#8217;s Legitimacy Despite House Division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberian government and the international community continue to uphold the legitimacy of Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, despite a faction within the House of Representatives controversially seeking his removal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Amid the stalemate in the House, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has invited Speaker Koffa to participate in a validation exercise for the government&#8217;s draft ARREST Agenda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">Despite the dispute, Information Minister Jerelinmek Piah clarified that the government&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410310227.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 The Liberian government and the international community continue to uphold the legitimacy of Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, despite a faction within the House of Representatives controversially seeking his removal. Amid the stalemate in the House, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has invited Speaker Koffa to participate in a validation exercise for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183694,"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":[258,256,7963,13653,4357,5110,8233,47323,14058,4712,1107,257,11021,254,9632],"class_list":["post-183693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-community","tag-division","tag-govt","tag-house","tag-intl","tag-koffas","tag-legitimacy","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-recognize","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker"],"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\/183693","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=183693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}