{"id":189606,"date":"2025-01-25T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T11:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-capitol-fire-investigative-process-under-scrutiny-amid-political-tensions\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T11:56:31","slug":"liberia-capitol-fire-investigative-process-under-scrutiny-amid-political-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-capitol-fire-investigative-process-under-scrutiny-amid-political-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Capitol Fire &#8211; Investigative Process Under Scrutiny Amid Political Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Monrovia \u2014 The fire that devastated Liberia&#8217;s historic Capitol Building on December 18, 2024, has sparked an array of public debates and controversies over the ongoing investigation by the Liberia National Police (LNP) and the Liberia National Fire Service (LNFS). As the nation grapples with the aftermath of this incident, questions surrounding the integrity, capacity, and transparency of the investigation continue to dominate public discourse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><strong>The Incident and Its Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"96\">The December 18 fire&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501240661.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 The fire that devastated Liberia&#8217;s historic Capitol Building on December 18, 2024, has sparked an array of public debates and controversies over the ongoing investigation by the Liberia National Police (LNP) and the Liberia National Fire Service (LNFS). As the nation grapples with the aftermath of this incident, questions surrounding the integrity, capacity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189607,"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":[258,256,9887,6600,6954,4712,1107,257,6378,5755,12040,254,7182],"class_list":["post-189606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capitol","tag-fire","tag-investigative","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-political","tag-process","tag-scrutiny","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions"],"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\/189606","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=189606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}