{"id":204157,"date":"2025-08-07T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-former-president-weah-sends-condolences-to-ghana-after-fatal-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:01:43","slug":"liberia-former-president-weah-sends-condolences-to-ghana-after-fatal-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-former-president-weah-sends-condolences-to-ghana-after-fatal-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Former President Weah Sends Condolences to Ghana After Fatal Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic helicopter crash in Ghana that claimed the lives of several high-ranking government officials, including that country&#8217;s Defence and Environment ministers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In a statement issued Wednesday through his Chief of Staff, Lenn Eugene Nagbe, the former president extended his condolences to the government and people of Ghana, describing the incident as a profound national loss.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;The passing of these esteemed officials is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508070013.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>Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic helicopter crash in Ghana that claimed the lives of several high-ranking government officials, including that country&#8217;s Defence and Environment ministers. In a statement issued Wednesday through his Chief of Staff, Lenn Eugene Nagbe, the former president extended his condolences to the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204158,"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\/00671114:59c18c3149c0b44111508e6382ac25e7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,10732,7750,13059,4508,11103,4712,1107,257,2450,7281,254,12734],"class_list":["post-204157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condolences","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-ghana","tag-helicopter","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-sends","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weah"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671114:59c18c3149c0b44111508e6382ac25e7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204157","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=204157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}