{"id":203604,"date":"2025-07-30T21:44:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-admits-economic-strain\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:44:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:44:49","slug":"liberia-boakai-admits-economic-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-admits-economic-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Admits Economic Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, in his keynote address marking Liberia&#8217;s 178th Independence Day, openly acknowledged the growing economic strain facing Liberians and announced bold steps to address the rising cost of living, including the establishment of a high-level committee to investigate persistent market price disparities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">Delivering his speech at the historic Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia, President Boakai candidly reflected on both the progress made and the challenges that remain&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507290434.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>President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, in his keynote address marking Liberia&#8217;s 178th Independence Day, openly acknowledged the growing economic strain facing Liberians and announced bold steps to address the rising cost of living, including the establishment of a high-level committee to investigate persistent market price disparities. Delivering his speech at the historic Centennial Memorial Pavilion in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203605,"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":[7988,258,256,7324,3576,4712,1107,257,254,23061],"class_list":["post-203604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-economic","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strain"],"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\/203604","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=203604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}