{"id":198666,"date":"2025-05-23T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-civil-society-group-urges-rigorous-negotiations-in-railway-access-discussions-warns-against-praise-mindset\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:20:41","slug":"liberia-civil-society-group-urges-rigorous-negotiations-in-railway-access-discussions-warns-against-praise-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-civil-society-group-urges-rigorous-negotiations-in-railway-access-discussions-warns-against-praise-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Civil Society Group Urges Rigorous Negotiations in Railway Access Discussions, Warns Against &#8216;Praise Mindset&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Monrovia \u2014 A Liberian civil society organization, One Voice Liberia, has urged the government to proceed cautiously in ongoing railway access negotiations with concession companies, particularly Ivanhoe Liberia (High Power Exploration &#8211; HPX), warning against the return to a culture of weak and rushed deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The group, in a statement issued this week, cautioned members of the Inter-ministerial Concession Committee (IMCC) to resist any &#8220;praise-driven&#8221; negotiation mindset reminiscent of Liberia&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505220339.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 A Liberian civil society organization, One Voice Liberia, has urged the government to proceed cautiously in ongoing railway access negotiations with concession companies, particularly Ivanhoe Liberia (High Power Exploration &#8211; HPX), warning against the return to a culture of weak and rushed deals. The group, in a statement issued this week, cautioned members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198667,"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":[6450,258,256,8227,12183,5192,4712,1107,10533,3762,257,6338,2918,25969,7120,254,6810,6853],"class_list":["post-198666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civil","tag-discussions","tag-group","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mindset","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-praise","tag-railway","tag-rigorous","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-warns"],"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\/198666","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=198666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}