{"id":204685,"date":"2025-08-14T21:59:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-weah-meets-ouattara-in-abidjan-strengthening-west-african-ties\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:59:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:59:50","slug":"liberia-weah-meets-ouattara-in-abidjan-strengthening-west-african-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-weah-meets-ouattara-in-abidjan-strengthening-west-african-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Weah Meets Ouattara in Abidjan, Strengthening West African Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Abidjan \u2014 Former Liberian President George M. Weah met with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, reaffirming their longstanding personal and diplomatic ties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to a release, the two leaders reflected on years of collaboration and discussed pressing regional and global challenges, emphasizing the need for West African nations to navigate the evolving geopolitical and economic landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Though no longer in office, Weah continues to maintain close&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508140184.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abidjan \u2014 Former Liberian President George M. Weah met with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, reaffirming their longstanding personal and diplomatic ties. According to a release, the two leaders reflected on years of collaboration and discussed pressing regional and global challenges, emphasizing the need for West African nations to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204686,"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":[1087],"tags":[2554,258,256,4380,6183,6555,1218,4712,6271,257,1920,254,7148,7051,12734,4375],"class_list":["post-204685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-liberia","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-ouattara","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthening","tag-ties","tag-weah","tag-west"],"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\/204685","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=204685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}