{"id":210306,"date":"2025-10-18T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-says-corruption-remains-a-serious-problem-cites-disregard-for-anti-graft-laws\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:47:11","slug":"liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-says-corruption-remains-a-serious-problem-cites-disregard-for-anti-graft-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-says-corruption-remains-a-serious-problem-cites-disregard-for-anti-graft-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ex-President Sirleaf Says Corruption Remains a Serious Problem, Cites Disregard for Anti-Graft Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 Liberia&#8217;s former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has expressed deep concern over the persistent wave of corruption within the country&#8217;s public sector, saying the problem remains one of the most serious challenges confronting national development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Speaking on the program <em>&#8220;Changing Minds, Changing Attitudes&#8221;<\/em> aired on the Liberia National Television (LNTV) and the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS), Madam Sirleaf lamented that despite the existence of several anti-corruption laws enacted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510170329.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 Liberia&#8217;s former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has expressed deep concern over the persistent wave of corruption within the country&#8217;s public sector, saying the problem remains one of the most serious challenges confronting national development. Speaking on the program &#8220;Changing Minds, Changing Attitudes&#8221; aired on the Liberia National Television (LNTV) and the Liberia Broadcasting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":210307,"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":[258,256,6902,5260,4723,27539,12175,5040,4712,1107,257,9981,7602,6912,254],"class_list":["post-210306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-antigraft","tag-cites","tag-corruption","tag-disregard","tag-expresident","tag-laws","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-problem","tag-remains","tag-sirleaf","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/210306","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=210306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}