{"id":191642,"date":"2025-02-17T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cummings-not-giving-up-on-the-presidency-but\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:46:56","slug":"liberia-cummings-not-giving-up-on-the-presidency-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cummings-not-giving-up-on-the-presidency-but\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Cummings Not Giving Up On the Presidency, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Monrovia \u2014 Alexander Benedict Cummings has ruled out a perpetual bid for political office, declaring that while he remains committed to Liberia&#8217;s progress, he is not desperate to keep running for president. Reflecting on past elections, the ANC leader admitted his message didn&#8217;t fully resonate with voters but insisted real change demands fresh approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Cummings addressed a panel of journalists in Monrovia, discussing a wide range of national issues, including governance, health, the rule of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502140278.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 Alexander Benedict Cummings has ruled out a perpetual bid for political office, declaring that while he remains committed to Liberia&#8217;s progress, he is not desperate to keep running for president. Reflecting on past elections, the ANC leader admitted his message didn&#8217;t fully resonate with voters but insisted real change demands fresh approaches. Cummings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191643,"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":[45299,258,256,6825,12983,4712,1107,257,8404,254],"class_list":["post-191642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-but","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cummings","tag-giving","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-presidency","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\/191642","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=191642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}