{"id":199222,"date":"2025-05-31T19:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-world-again-is-rooting-for-liberia\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T19:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:41:53","slug":"liberia-the-world-again-is-rooting-for-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-world-again-is-rooting-for-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: The World Again Is Rooting for Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">There are moments in a nation&#8217;s history when time seems to pause, holding its breath for what is to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">This week, as Liberia closed its campaign for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, the world did not just watch &#8212; it rose to its feet. From the African Union to ECOWAS, from Italy to Ethiopia, voices from every corner of the globe echoed the same sentiment: Liberia matters. Liberia is ready. Liberia is worthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\"><strong>This is not flattery. It is recognition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"100\">The candidacy of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505310018.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>There are moments in a nation&#8217;s history when time seems to pause, holding its breath for what is to come. This week, as Liberia closed its campaign for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, the world did not just watch &#8212; it rose to its feet. From the African Union to ECOWAS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199223,"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":[258,256,4712,1107,257,37633,254,5093],"class_list":["post-199222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-rooting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/199222","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=199222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}