{"id":185865,"date":"2024-12-04T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T09:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-faces-u-s-50m-arbitration-threat-amid-rail-rights-controversy\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T11:57:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T09:57:30","slug":"liberia-faces-u-s-50m-arbitration-threat-amid-rail-rights-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-faces-u-s-50m-arbitration-threat-amid-rail-rights-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Faces U.S.$50m Arbitration Threat Amid Rail Rights Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">The Government of Liberia (GOL) is at a crossroads, navigating a US$50 million arbitration notice filed by the Solway Investment Group (SIG) while contending with ArcelorMittal Liberia&#8217;s (AML) demands for exclusive control of the Yekepa-Buchanan railway. The stakes in this tripartite negotiation extend far beyond the arbitration claim, posing significant questions about the nation&#8217;s economic sovereignty and governance of critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"96\">The dispute began when Solway Mining Incorporated&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412040153.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 Government of Liberia (GOL) is at a crossroads, navigating a US$50 million arbitration notice filed by the Solway Investment Group (SIG) while contending with ArcelorMittal Liberia&#8217;s (AML) demands for exclusive control of the Yekepa-Buchanan railway. The stakes in this tripartite negotiation extend far beyond the arbitration claim, posing significant questions about the nation&#8217;s economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":185866,"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":[258,256,21545,9868,5080,4712,1107,257,7366,5100,254,6791,50100],"class_list":["post-185865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arbitration","tag-controversy","tag-faces","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-rail","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat","tag-u-s-50m"],"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\/185865","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=185865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}