{"id":185037,"date":"2024-11-21T11:22:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sanctioned-senator-twehway-wants-u-s-stay-out-of-liberias-politics\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T11:22:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T09:22:35","slug":"liberia-sanctioned-senator-twehway-wants-u-s-stay-out-of-liberias-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sanctioned-senator-twehway-wants-u-s-stay-out-of-liberias-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Sanctioned Senator Twehway Wants U.S. Stay Out of Liberia&#8217;s Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 Sanctioned Senator Bill Twehway has urged Liberia&#8217;s Ambassador-designate to the U.S., Dr. Al-Hassan Conteh, to demand that Washington stop interfering in Liberia&#8217;s internal politics, citing U.S. sanctions as a breach of the country&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Dr. Conteh and Lewis Brown, Ambassador-designate to Liberia&#8217;s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs for their open confirmation hearing on Wednesday, November 20, 2024, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411210133.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 Sanctioned Senator Bill Twehway has urged Liberia&#8217;s Ambassador-designate to the U.S., Dr. Al-Hassan Conteh, to demand that Washington stop interfering in Liberia&#8217;s internal politics, citing U.S. sanctions as a breach of the country&#8217;s sovereignty. Dr. Conteh and Lewis Brown, Ambassador-designate to Liberia&#8217;s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, appeared before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185038,"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":[258,256,4712,1107,8536,257,6916,18096,7798,254,9311,36001,2282],"class_list":["post-185037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-sanctioned","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay","tag-twehway","tag-u-s"],"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\/185037","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=185037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}