{"id":204049,"date":"2025-08-05T21:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-diaspora-liberians-urge-government-to-rebury-former-head-of-state-david-kpomakpor-as-part-of-national-reconciliation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:58:58","slug":"liberia-diaspora-liberians-urge-government-to-rebury-former-head-of-state-david-kpomakpor-as-part-of-national-reconciliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-diaspora-liberians-urge-government-to-rebury-former-head-of-state-david-kpomakpor-as-part-of-national-reconciliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Diaspora Liberians Urge Government to Rebury Former Head of State David Kpomakpor As Part of National Reconciliation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Monrovia \u2014 Diaspora Liberians from Klay District, Bomi County, are calling on the Liberian government to honor former Head of State, Professor David D. Kpomakpor, with a state-sponsored reburial in Liberia&#8211;describing the move as a necessary step toward national healing and reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The appeal follows recent reburial ceremonies for former Presidents William R. Tolbert Jr. and Samuel K. Doe&#8211;efforts praised for their symbolic significance in closing painful chapters of Liberia&#8217;s history&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508050213.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 Diaspora Liberians from Klay District, Bomi County, are calling on the Liberian government to honor former Head of State, Professor David D. Kpomakpor, with a state-sponsored reburial in Liberia&#8211;describing the move as a necessary step toward national healing and reconciliation. The appeal follows recent reburial ceremonies for former Presidents William R. Tolbert Jr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204050,"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":[258,256,12568,3506,6427,52037,4712,1107,6565,6687,257,7140,52036,10292,254,6017,10525],"class_list":["post-204049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-david","tag-diaspora","tag-government","tag-kpomakpor","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-national","tag-news","tag-part","tag-rebury","tag-reconciliation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-urge"],"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\/204049","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=204049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}