{"id":193302,"date":"2025-03-11T03:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-protest-greets-vp-koung-in-america\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T03:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:31:47","slug":"liberia-protest-greets-vp-koung-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-protest-greets-vp-koung-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Protest Greets VP Koung in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">Maryland \u2014 Aggrieved Liberians residing in the United States of America, especially Washington, D.C., staged a protest, resisting Vice President Jeremiah K. Koung, who is visiting the U.S. during a Town Hall meeting to demand justice for extrajudicial killings, rising cost of living, economic hardship, and corruption in Liberia. However, Vice President Koung describes the Office of the Vice President as a &#8220;park car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In a video footage circulating on Social Media, the diaspora Liberians were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503100550.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>Maryland \u2014 Aggrieved Liberians residing in the United States of America, especially Washington, D.C., staged a protest, resisting Vice President Jeremiah K. Koung, who is visiting the U.S. during a Town Hall meeting to demand justice for extrajudicial killings, rising cost of living, economic hardship, and corruption in Liberia. However, Vice President Koung describes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193303,"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":[258,256,4567,15058,38704,4712,1107,257,2194,254],"class_list":["post-193302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-america","tag-greets","tag-koung","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-protest","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\/193302","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=193302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}