{"id":202204,"date":"2025-07-11T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-captain-kollie-demands-state-funeral-for-fallen-war-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T19:07:00","slug":"liberia-captain-kollie-demands-state-funeral-for-fallen-war-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-captain-kollie-demands-state-funeral-for-fallen-war-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Captain Kollie Demands State Funeral for Fallen War Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\"><em>Captain Jerry Kerkulah Kollie, a former representative candidate for Bong County Electoral District #2 and a vocal advocate for veteran recognition, has called on President Joseph Nyumah Boakai to organize a state funeral for all Liberian soldiers who lost their lives during the country&#8217;s brutal 14-year civil conflict.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Gbarnga, Bong County: Addressing reporters following a consultative meeting with former military leaders, Captain Kollie emphasized the symbolic and moral importance of properly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507110426.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Captain Jerry Kerkulah Kollie, a former representative candidate for Bong County Electoral District #2 and a vocal advocate for veteran recognition, has called on President Joseph Nyumah Boakai to organize a state funeral for all Liberian soldiers who lost their lives during the country&#8217;s brutal 14-year civil conflict. Gbarnga, Bong County: Addressing reporters following a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202205,"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":[258,256,10844,6979,11035,7945,44331,4712,1107,257,4401,254,6017,6618],"class_list":["post-202204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-captain","tag-demands","tag-fallen","tag-funeral","tag-kollie","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-war"],"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\/202204","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=202204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}