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In the shadows of a burgeoning democracy, the Liberian people’s pocketbooks (wallets and purses) are bleeding.<\/p>\n
Every transaction feels like it comes at a substantial economic and psychological cost.<\/p>\n
The glaring disparity between the promise of prosperity and the harsh reality facing ordinary Liberians raises urgent questions about governance under President Joseph N. Boakai and Vice President Jeremiah K. Koung.<\/p>\n
The promises made during the 2023 campaign trail echoed with hope and optimism.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> In the shadows of a burgeoning democracy, the Liberian people’s pocketbooks (wallets and purses) are bleeding. Every transaction feels like it comes at a substantial economic and psychological cost. The glaring disparity between the promise of prosperity and the harsh reality facing ordinary Liberians raises urgent questions about governance under President Joseph N. Boakai and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184738,"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":[258,256,6880,3723,3576,4712,1107,257,9097,254,6240],"class_list":["post-184737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-crisis","tag-economic","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-renewal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transformation"],"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\/184737","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=184737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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