{"id":190411,"date":"2025-02-03T14:11:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/gambia-liberia-sierra-leone-and-the-gambia-ink-free-roaming-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:11:41","slug":"gambia-liberia-sierra-leone-and-the-gambia-ink-free-roaming-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/gambia-liberia-sierra-leone-and-the-gambia-ink-free-roaming-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia Ink Free Roaming Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Freetown, Sierra Leone \u2014 Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia have signed a landmark agreement to eliminate roaming charges between the three nations, enabling citizens to call, text, and use mobile data at local rates while traveling. While celebrated as a milestone in regional integration, questions loom about its feasibility and whether telecom operators will fully comply.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed in Freetown, aligns with ECOWAS&#8217;s broader agenda to reduce exorbitant&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502030266.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freetown, Sierra Leone \u2014 Liberia, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia have signed a landmark agreement to eliminate roaming charges between the three nations, enabling citizens to call, text, and use mobile data at local rates while traveling. While celebrated as a milestone in regional integration, questions loom about its feasibility and whether telecom operators will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190412,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7012,6544,6408,14779,6572,4712,257,15744,6571,1135,254],"class_list":["post-190411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deal","tag-free","tag-gambia","tag-ink","tag-leone","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-roaming","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","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\/190411","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=190411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}