{"id":213374,"date":"2025-11-12T13:42:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-no-more-foolishness-time-for-a-three-strikes-policy-on-arcelormittal\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:42:33","slug":"liberia-no-more-foolishness-time-for-a-three-strikes-policy-on-arcelormittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-no-more-foolishness-time-for-a-three-strikes-policy-on-arcelormittal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: No More Foolishness &#8211; Time for a &#8216;Three-Strikes Policy&#8217; On Arcelormittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"76\">ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML) wants to control everything &#8212; the Yekepa-Buchanan railway, the Port of Buchanan, and by extension, the future of Liberia&#8217;s mineral exports. The company has fought tooth and nail for years to monopolize these strategic assets under the guise of &#8220;investment.&#8221; But here&#8217;s the irony: in AML&#8217;s own 2023 Annual Report, the company admits losing significant revenue due to repeated derailments of iron ore trains along the very railway it&#8217;s so desperate to control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">If you can&#8217;t&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511120389.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>ArcelorMittal Liberia (AML) wants to control everything &#8212; the Yekepa-Buchanan railway, the Port of Buchanan, and by extension, the future of Liberia&#8217;s mineral exports. The company has fought tooth and nail for years to monopolize these strategic assets under the guise of &#8220;investment.&#8221; But here&#8217;s the irony: in AML&#8217;s own 2023 Annual Report, the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213375,"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":[258,256,2192,52861,4712,1107,257,6470,254,52862,6599],"class_list":["post-213374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arcelormittal","tag-foolishness","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-policy","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threestrikes","tag-time"],"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\/213374","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=213374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}