{"id":191219,"date":"2025-02-12T14:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sierra-leones-president-bio-urges-liberian-military-to-stay-out-of-politics\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T12:31:44","slug":"liberia-sierra-leones-president-bio-urges-liberian-military-to-stay-out-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sierra-leones-president-bio-urges-liberian-military-to-stay-out-of-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Sierra Leone&#8217;s President Bio Urges Liberian Military to Stay Out of Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Monrovia \u2014 President Julius Maada Bio has called on the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) to remain apolitical in their service to the country and its people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">President Bio, who is the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Sierra Leone (AFSL), served as the keynote speaker at the 68th anniversary celebration of the founding of the AFL. Addressing the military, he emphasized that the survival of democracy relies on a non-political army, asserting that nations prosper when the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502120308.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>Monrovia \u2014 President Julius Maada Bio has called on the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) to remain apolitical in their service to the country and its people. President Bio, who is the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Sierra Leone (AFSL), served as the keynote speaker at the 68th anniversary celebration of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191220,"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":[258,256,15641,7271,4712,1090,3318,257,6916,2450,6571,1135,254,9311,6810],"class_list":["post-191219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bio","tag-leones","tag-liberia","tag-liberian","tag-military","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stay","tag-urges"],"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\/191219","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=191219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}