{"id":218489,"date":"2025-12-30T03:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-closes-borders-with-liberia-as-country-holds-elections-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T03:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T01:17:05","slug":"guinea-closes-borders-with-liberia-as-country-holds-elections-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-closes-borders-with-liberia-as-country-holds-elections-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea Closes Borders With Liberia As Country Holds Elections Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Ganta, Nimba County \u2014 Guinean authorities have officially shut down their side of the borders with Liberia as the country is holding national elections today, Sunday, December 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Large numbers of army personnel have been deployed on both sides to secure the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">This writer, who visited the Ganta border post, confirmed heavy military presence from both countries. Joint security forces are in place to safeguard the border during the polls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The closure, effective from 6 PM yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290047.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>Ganta, Nimba County \u2014 Guinean authorities have officially shut down their side of the borders with Liberia as the country is holding national elections today, Sunday, December 28, 2025. Large numbers of army personnel have been deployed on both sides to secure the area. This writer, who visited the Ganta border post, confirmed heavy military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660456:f911015a20852c0895678422a13661e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,8490,6037,5042,821,4715,1124,6275,4712,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-218489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-borders","tag-closes","tag-country","tag-elections","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-holds","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660456:f911015a20852c0895678422a13661e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218489","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=218489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}