{"id":202403,"date":"2025-07-14T09:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-a-pillar-of-stability-ex-president-george-weah-pays-tribute-to-late-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T07:11:50","slug":"liberia-a-pillar-of-stability-ex-president-george-weah-pays-tribute-to-late-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-a-pillar-of-stability-ex-president-george-weah-pays-tribute-to-late-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;A Pillar of Stability&#8217; &#8211; Ex-President George Weah Pays Tribute to Late Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Monrovia \u2014 Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has paid tribute to the late Muhammadu Buhari, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, describing him as a &#8220;pillar of stability&#8221; and a &#8220;steadfast partner&#8221; in Liberia&#8217;s democratic journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a statement issued Sunday, July 13, from Monrovia, Weah expressed deep sadness over Buhari&#8217;s passing, recalling the Nigerian leader&#8217;s crucial role in supporting Liberia&#8217;s post-war transition and regional peace efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;He became a pillar&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507140084.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>Monrovia \u2014 Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has paid tribute to the late Muhammadu Buhari, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, describing him as a &#8220;pillar of stability&#8221; and a &#8220;steadfast partner&#8221; in Liberia&#8217;s democratic journey. In a statement issued Sunday, July 13, from Monrovia, Weah expressed deep sadness over Buhari&#8217;s passing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202404,"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":[258,256,5228,12175,9193,8262,4712,1107,5227,257,482,7223,10462,2450,254,9185,10225,12734],"class_list":["post-202403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-buhari","tag-expresident","tag-george","tag-late","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-muhammadu","tag-news","tag-nigerian","tag-pays","tag-pillar","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stability","tag-tribute","tag-weah"],"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\/202403","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=202403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}