{"id":200917,"date":"2025-06-25T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-all-of-africa-today-june-25-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:19:03","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-june-25-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/africa-all-of-africa-today-june-25-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; June 25, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><strong>Sierra Leone&#8217;s President Bio Takes Helm of ECOWAS, Vows to Restore Order<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"112\">Sierra Leone&#8217;s President Julius Maada Bio, the newly <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506240433.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elected chairperson<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0 Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS), promised to focus on restoring constitutional order and deepening democracy in the region. Bio is taking\u00a0over from Nigeria&#8217;s President Bola Tinubu, under whose leadership the bloc faced major challenges. Tinubu served two terms as the chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506250096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Sierra Leone&#8217;s President Bio Takes Helm of ECOWAS, Vows to Restore Order Sierra Leone&#8217;s President Julius Maada Bio, the newly elected chairperson\u00a0of the\u00a0 Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS), promised to focus on restoring constitutional order and deepening democracy in the region. Bio is taking\u00a0over from Nigeria&#8217;s President Bola Tinubu, under whose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,7486,257,1135,254,6637],"class_list":["post-200917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-june","tag-news","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200917","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=200917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}