{"id":196152,"date":"2025-04-16T06:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-chinese-mining-company-defies-govt-order\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:04:13","slug":"liberia-chinese-mining-company-defies-govt-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-chinese-mining-company-defies-govt-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Chinese Mining Company Defies Govt Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Da-Tang Mining, a Chinese mining company operating in Gbankonah, Bong County, has ignored the government&#8217;s directive to halt its mining activities in the area.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Gbankonah, Bong County April 14, 2025: Despite a government-imposed suspension, DA-TANG Mining Company Inc. is reportedly continuing full-scale operations in Gbankonah, Zota District, Bong County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">According to an investigation conducted by our report on Saturday, April 12, workers were seen actively mining in the area, disregarding the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504150579.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Da-Tang Mining, a Chinese mining company operating in Gbankonah, Bong County, has ignored the government&#8217;s directive to halt its mining activities in the area. Gbankonah, Bong County April 14, 2025: Despite a government-imposed suspension, DA-TANG Mining Company Inc. is reportedly continuing full-scale operations in Gbankonah, Zota District, Bong County. According to an investigation conducted by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196153,"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":[258,256,435,7156,8319,4357,4712,1107,6477,257,7576,254],"class_list":["post-196152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinese","tag-company","tag-defies","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-order","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/196152","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=196152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}