{"id":199791,"date":"2025-06-08T07:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-spared-from-trumps-new-u-s-visa-ban\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T07:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T05:56:58","slug":"liberia-spared-from-trumps-new-u-s-visa-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-spared-from-trumps-new-u-s-visa-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Spared From Trump&#8217;s New U.S. Visa Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Monrovia \u2014 Liberia has been exempted from U.S. President Donald J. Trump&#8217;s latest visa ban, which targets countries deemed security risks to the United States under a new executive order issued in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The controversial action, part of Executive Order 14161 titled <em>&#8220;Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats,&#8221;<\/em> affects 12 countries, banning their citizens from obtaining U.S. visas. Notably, Liberia, previously placed on a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060279.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 Liberia has been exempted from U.S. President Donald J. Trump&#8217;s latest visa ban, which targets countries deemed security risks to the United States under a new executive order issued in January 2025. The controversial action, part of Executive Order 14161 titled &#8220;Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199792,"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":[258,256,7185,4712,1107,257,254,36546,9387,2282,1956],"class_list":["post-199791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spared","tag-trumps","tag-u-s","tag-visa"],"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\/199791","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=199791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}