{"id":186286,"date":"2024-12-10T23:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-ria-renovation-deal-sparks-security-fears-over-ties-to-ousted-guinean-president\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T23:45:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:45:39","slug":"guinea-ria-renovation-deal-sparks-security-fears-over-ties-to-ousted-guinean-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-ria-renovation-deal-sparks-security-fears-over-ties-to-ousted-guinean-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: RIA Renovation Deal Sparks Security Fears Over Ties to Ousted Guinean President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Monrovia \u2014 <em>The Liberian Investigator<\/em> has gathered that the Liberian Government is in advanced talks to award the renovation of Roberts International Airport (RIA) to Turkey&#8217;s Albayrak Group, a move clouded by controversy over the company&#8217;s troubling history and alleged ties to ousted Guinean President Alpha Cond\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"73\">Sources within government circles have revealed that former President Cond\u00e9, reportedly using his influence with the Albayrak Group, reached out to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412100356.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Liberian Investigator has gathered that the Liberian Government is in advanced talks to award the renovation of Roberts International Airport (RIA) to Turkey&#8217;s Albayrak Group, a move clouded by controversy over the company&#8217;s troubling history and alleged ties to ousted Guinean President Alpha Cond\u00e9. Sources within government circles have revealed that former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186287,"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":[1118],"tags":[258,256,7012,5140,4715,1124,6016,257,14362,2450,9541,17403,4586,254,9617,7051],"class_list":["post-186286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-fears","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-guinean","tag-news","tag-ousted","tag-president","tag-renovation","tag-ria","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-ties"],"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\/186286","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=186286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}