{"id":187534,"date":"2024-12-30T12:58:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-likely-to-face-cement-petroleum-shortages\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T10:58:19","slug":"liberia-likely-to-face-cement-petroleum-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-likely-to-face-cement-petroleum-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Likely to Face Cement, Petroleum Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><em>-As smuggling continues across borders<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Liberia is likely to face shortages of some of the essential commodities, including cement, petroleum products and rice, if the government fails to stop these items from being smuggled or shipped out of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Daily Observer Nimba Bureau observed the unprecedented movement or smuggling of these essential goods using the Ganta Border and other subordinate ports of crossing into Guinea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The smuggling is said to have undermined the prices of these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412300054.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>-As smuggling continues across borders Liberia is likely to face shortages of some of the essential commodities, including cement, petroleum products and rice, if the government fails to stop these items from being smuggled or shipped out of the country. The Daily Observer Nimba Bureau observed the unprecedented movement or smuggling of these essential goods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187535,"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":[258,256,8687,7127,4712,1107,257,5733,18813,254],"class_list":["post-187534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cement","tag-face","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-petroleum","tag-shortages","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/187534","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=187534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}