{"id":206493,"date":"2025-09-07T23:09:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-world-is-hungry-for-lithium-and-liberia-is-sitting-on-billions-of-dollars-worth\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:09:03","slug":"liberia-the-world-is-hungry-for-lithium-and-liberia-is-sitting-on-billions-of-dollars-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-the-world-is-hungry-for-lithium-and-liberia-is-sitting-on-billions-of-dollars-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: The World Is Hungry for Lithium, and Liberia Is Sitting On Billions of Dollars’ Worth."},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Chinese have discovered a massive deposit of lithium in Liberia. Yet to many of us that news is bittersweet.<\/p>\n

Why? Because we’ve seen this story before. Foreign companies swoop in, dig up our land, carry off our wealth, destroy our ecosystems, then leave us with nothing but holes in the ground. A few politicians line their pockets while ordinary Liberians remain dirt poor. That’s business as usual.<\/p>\n

But lithium is no ordinary mineral. It powers the future — electric cars, cell phones, robots….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a>
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South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Chinese have discovered a massive deposit of lithium in Liberia. Yet to many of us that news is bittersweet. Why? Because we’ve seen this story before. Foreign companies swoop in, dig up our land, carry off our wealth, destroy our ecosystems, then leave us with nothing but holes in the ground. A few politicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":206494,"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":[258,256,12854,13172,12422,4712,1107,43979,257,8276,254,5093,5084],"class_list":["post-206493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billions","tag-dollars","tag-hungry","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lithium","tag-news","tag-sitting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world","tag-worth"],"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\/206493","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=206493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}