{"id":188017,"date":"2025-01-06T13:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cape-mount-residents-were-dying-from-chemicals-no-food-or-water\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:12:40","slug":"liberia-cape-mount-residents-were-dying-from-chemicals-no-food-or-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cape-mount-residents-were-dying-from-chemicals-no-food-or-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Cape Mount Residents &#8211; &#8216;We&#8217;re Dying From Chemicals, No Food or Water&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Grand Cape \u2014 Residents in Grand Cape Mount County are crying out against Bea Mountain Mining Corporation (BMMC), accusing the company of polluting their water, destroying farmland, and leaving them to suffer without clean drinking water, food, or basic services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Liberian Investigator embarked on an investigative tour in Grand Cape Mount County from December 20-22, 2024, focusing on communities directly impacted by BMMC&#8217;s mining activities. The aim was to assess the living conditions of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501060055.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>Grand Cape \u2014 Residents in Grand Cape Mount County are crying out against Bea Mountain Mining Corporation (BMMC), accusing the company of polluting their water, destroying farmland, and leaving them to suffer without clean drinking water, food, or basic services. The Liberian Investigator embarked on an investigative tour in Grand Cape Mount County from December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188018,"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":[258,256,14018,15213,16709,5074,4712,1107,16850,257,4288,254,6722],"class_list":["post-188017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cape","tag-chemicals","tag-dying","tag-food","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mount","tag-news","tag-residents","tag-south-africa-today","tag-water"],"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\/188017","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=188017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}