{"id":200539,"date":"2025-06-20T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-urges-house-to-ratify-wto-fisheries-subsidies-agreement\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T06:22:00","slug":"liberia-boakai-urges-house-to-ratify-wto-fisheries-subsidies-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-urges-house-to-ratify-wto-fisheries-subsidies-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Urges House to Ratify WTO Fisheries Subsidies Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has called on Liberia&#8217;s House of Representatives to ratify the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, describing it as a vital step toward protecting the livelihoods of thousands of Liberian fishers and preserving the nation&#8217;s marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">In a formal communication delivered during the House plenary session on Tuesday, June 17, President Boakai underscored the urgent need for Liberia to join the growing global coalition working to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200044.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>President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has called on Liberia&#8217;s House of Representatives to ratify the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, describing it as a vital step toward protecting the livelihoods of thousands of Liberian fishers and preserving the nation&#8217;s marine ecosystems. In a formal communication delivered during the House plenary session on Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200540,"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":[258,256,6423,7324,7087,5110,4712,1107,257,6421,254,17819,6810,14288],"class_list":["post-200539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreement","tag-boakai","tag-fisheries","tag-house","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-ratify","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subsidies","tag-urges","tag-wto"],"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\/200539","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=200539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}