{"id":200735,"date":"2025-06-23T08:27:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-conflicting-figures-on-foreign-workers-at-arcelormittal-leave-public-puzzled-as-fpa-gains-rare-access-to-aml-job-numbers\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T08:27:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:27:49","slug":"liberia-conflicting-figures-on-foreign-workers-at-arcelormittal-leave-public-puzzled-as-fpa-gains-rare-access-to-aml-job-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-conflicting-figures-on-foreign-workers-at-arcelormittal-leave-public-puzzled-as-fpa-gains-rare-access-to-aml-job-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Conflicting Figures On Foreign Workers At Arcelormittal Leave Public Puzzled As Fpa Gains Rare Access to Aml Job Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Monrovia \u2014 A startling contradiction between two senior Liberian government officials has stirred national confusion over the number of foreign workers employed by ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML), raising concerns about inter-agency coordination and the credibility of official labor statistics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The debate flared Thursday during separate public appearances by Labor Minister Cllr. Cooper Kruah and Civil Service Agency (CSA) Director General Josiah Joekai, who offered sharply divergent figures&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200165.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 startling contradiction between two senior Liberian government officials has stirred national confusion over the number of foreign workers employed by ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML), raising concerns about inter-agency coordination and the credibility of official labor statistics. The debate flared Thursday during separate public appearances by Labor Minister Cllr. Cooper Kruah and Civil Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200736,"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":[6450,258,256,34174,2192,9661,10244,5169,34832,7219,9679,6775,4712,1107,257,8967,5751,51707,18582,254,6498],"class_list":["post-200735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aml","tag-arcelormittal","tag-conflicting","tag-figures","tag-foreign","tag-fpa","tag-gains","tag-job","tag-leave","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-numbers","tag-public","tag-puzzled","tag-rare","tag-south-africa-today","tag-workers"],"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\/200735","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=200735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}