{"id":204947,"date":"2025-08-18T22:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-stand-sets-december-17-final-showdown-warns-boakai-to-lead-or-leave\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:25:50","slug":"liberia-stand-sets-december-17-final-showdown-warns-boakai-to-lead-or-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-stand-sets-december-17-final-showdown-warns-boakai-to-lead-or-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Stand Sets December 17 &#8216;Final Showdown,&#8217; Warns Boakai to Lead or Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">MONROVIA \u2014 A coalition of civil society groups has declared <strong>Dec. 17<\/strong> the start of a &#8220;final showdown&#8221; against President Joseph Boakai, warning he must &#8220;lead or leave&#8221; after a U.S. State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2024-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/liberia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> concluded that Liberia&#8217;s human rights conditions showed <strong>&#8220;no significant change&#8221;<\/strong> during his first year in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/liberianinvestigator.com\/update\/stand-ultimatum-boakai-protest-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enough Is Enough Protest Coalition<\/a>, led by Solidarity &amp; Trust for a New Day (STAND) and the We the People Movement, said the December action will dwarf the July 17 demonstrations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180579.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 A coalition of civil society groups has declared Dec. 17 the start of a &#8220;final showdown&#8221; against President Joseph Boakai, warning he must &#8220;lead or leave&#8221; after a U.S. State Department report concluded that Liberia&#8217;s human rights conditions showed &#8220;no significant change&#8221; during his first year in office. The Enough Is Enough Protest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204948,"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":[258,256,7324,6939,6038,7358,6775,4712,1107,257,7123,11502,254,12397,6853],"class_list":["post-204947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-december","tag-final","tag-lead","tag-leave","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-sets","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stand","tag-warns"],"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\/204947","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=204947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}