{"id":199267,"date":"2025-06-01T07:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/west-africa-liberia-launches-year-long-celebration-of-ecowas-50th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T07:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T05:42:54","slug":"west-africa-liberia-launches-year-long-celebration-of-ecowas-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/west-africa-liberia-launches-year-long-celebration-of-ecowas-50th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Liberia Launches Year-Long Celebration of Ecowas 50th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">As part of the activities marking the 50th Anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Government of Liberia on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, launched a year-long celebration in Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">During the official ceremony, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cllr. Deweh E. Gray, paid heartfelt tribute to the gallant men and women of the Economic Community of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) who served during Liberia&#8217;s civil crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">Speaking at the ECOWAS at 50&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505310017.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>As part of the activities marking the 50th Anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Government of Liberia on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, launched a year-long celebration in Monrovia. During the official ceremony, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cllr. Deweh E. Gray, paid heartfelt tribute to the gallant men and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199268,"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":[24466,258,256,8220,13224,2557,5957,4712,1107,257,254,4375,46937],"class_list":["post-199267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-50th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anniversary","tag-celebration","tag-ecowas","tag-launches","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west","tag-yearlong"],"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\/199267","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=199267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}