{"id":194258,"date":"2025-03-22T15:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T13:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-civil-society-coalition-condemns-arbitrary-arrest-and-intimidation-of-football-stakeholder-melton-yoko\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T15:54:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T13:54:57","slug":"liberia-civil-society-coalition-condemns-arbitrary-arrest-and-intimidation-of-football-stakeholder-melton-yoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-civil-society-coalition-condemns-arbitrary-arrest-and-intimidation-of-football-stakeholder-melton-yoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Civil Society Coalition Condemns Arbitrary Arrest and Intimidation of Football Stakeholder, Melton Yoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">Monrovia \u2014 <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Down Town FC have kept its promotion hopes alive in the Liberia Football Association&#8217;s Second Division League after securing a 1-1 draw against Sinoe NPA on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at the Doris Williams Sports Ground in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The &#8220;City Boys&#8221; remain third in the league standings, with 48 points from 25 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Gabriel Omele&#8217;s 50th-minute goal gave Down Town the lead, but Sinoe NPA equalized late in the match to share the spoils.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Following the match, Down&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210515.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 Down Town FC have kept its promotion hopes alive in the Liberia Football Association&#8217;s Second Division League after securing a 1-1 draw against Sinoe NPA on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at the Doris Williams Sports Ground in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County. The &#8220;City Boys&#8221; remain third in the league standings, with 48 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,13768,6414,8227,5780,7610,3299,7612,4712,1107,50927,257,7120,254,14251,50928],"class_list":["post-194258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arbitrary","tag-arrest","tag-civil","tag-coalition","tag-condemns","tag-football","tag-intimidation","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-melton","tag-news","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stakeholder","tag-yoko"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194258","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=194258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}