{"id":193038,"date":"2025-03-07T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sierra-leone-ministers-urge-bold-reforms-in-environmental-and-mining-laws-for-africas-development\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:20:29","slug":"liberia-sierra-leone-ministers-urge-bold-reforms-in-environmental-and-mining-laws-for-africas-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sierra-leone-ministers-urge-bold-reforms-in-environmental-and-mining-laws-for-africas-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Sierra Leone Ministers Urge Bold Reforms in Environmental and Mining Laws for Africa&#8217;s Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Two Sierra Leonean government officials have spoken of the need for comprehensive reforms across Africa&#8217;s mineral, mining, environmental rights and climate justice frameworks for sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">At a recent joint conference on Natural Resources and the Environment in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Minister of Mines and Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, advocated for the industrialization of Africa&#8217;s mining sector. He said that industrialization would allow natural resources to be extracted and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070018.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>Two Sierra Leonean government officials have spoken of the need for comprehensive reforms across Africa&#8217;s mineral, mining, environmental rights and climate justice frameworks for sustainable development. At a recent joint conference on Natural Resources and the Environment in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Minister of Mines and Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, advocated for the industrialization of Africa&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193039,"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":[258,256,6287,7439,5989,14654,5040,6572,4712,6477,8788,257,7580,6571,1135,254,10525],"class_list":["post-193038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-bold","tag-development","tag-environmental","tag-laws","tag-leone","tag-liberia","tag-mining","tag-ministers","tag-news","tag-reforms","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge"],"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\/193038","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=193038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}