{"id":198396,"date":"2025-05-19T07:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-revokes-bio-chico-mining-permit\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:12:38","slug":"liberia-boakai-revokes-bio-chico-mining-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-revokes-bio-chico-mining-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Revokes Bio Chico Mining Permit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Monrovia \u2014 The Government of Liberia has, with immediate effect, revoked the operating permit of Bio Chico Resources Liberia Limited, barring the company from using all public roads in the country to transport iron ore from its mining sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Information Minister Jerolinmek Mathew Piah announced during a press briefing held at the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs, and Tourism (MICAT) on Wednesday, May 15, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">According to him, the decision followed a high-level inter-ministerial&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505160301.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>Monrovia \u2014 The Government of Liberia has, with immediate effect, revoked the operating permit of Bio Chico Resources Liberia Limited, barring the company from using all public roads in the country to transport iron ore from its mining sites. Information Minister Jerolinmek Mathew Piah announced during a press briefing held at the Ministry of Information, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198397,"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":[258,256,15641,7324,50829,4712,1107,6477,257,13188,11329,254],"class_list":["post-198396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bio","tag-boakai","tag-chico","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-permit","tag-revokes","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\/198396","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=198396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}