{"id":214331,"date":"2025-11-21T01:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-explainer-liberia-guinea-and-ivanhoe-the-backstory-to-a-shared-rail-corridor\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T01:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:46:51","slug":"guinea-explainer-liberia-guinea-and-ivanhoe-the-backstory-to-a-shared-rail-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-explainer-liberia-guinea-and-ivanhoe-the-backstory-to-a-shared-rail-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: Explainer &#8211; Liberia, Guinea and Ivanhoe: the Backstory to a Shared Rail Corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">As public debate intensifies over whether Liberia acted properly in allowing Ivanhoe Atlantic to pursue shipment of Guinean ore through the Yekepa-Buchanan railway, many Liberians are only now learning that the two countries have had a formal cross-border transport framework in place for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Far from blindsiding the Republic of Guinea, the Ivanhoe Agreement builds upon a long-standing&#8211;and jointly negotiated&#8211;legal architecture specifically created to enable Guinean mining companies to access&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511200647.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As public debate intensifies over whether Liberia acted properly in allowing Ivanhoe Atlantic to pursue shipment of Guinean ore through the Yekepa-Buchanan railway, many Liberians are only now learning that the two countries have had a formal cross-border transport framework in place for years. Far from blindsiding the Republic of Guinea, the Ivanhoe Agreement builds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214332,"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":[1118],"tags":[258,256,50566,12298,13488,4715,1124,51824,4712,257,7366,6480,254],"class_list":["post-214331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backstory","tag-corridor","tag-explainer","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-ivanhoe","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-rail","tag-shared","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\/214331","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=214331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}