{"id":218672,"date":"2025-12-31T15:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-district-8-youths-cry-foul-over-illegal-power-grab-accuse-political-forces-of-plot-to-oust-ddc-leadership\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:34:02","slug":"liberia-district-8-youths-cry-foul-over-illegal-power-grab-accuse-political-forces-of-plot-to-oust-ddc-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-district-8-youths-cry-foul-over-illegal-power-grab-accuse-political-forces-of-plot-to-oust-ddc-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: District 8 Youths Cry Foul Over &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Power Grab, Accuse Political Forces of Plot to Oust DDC Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> December 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\"><strong>MONROVIA, Liberia<\/strong> &#8212; The Montserrado County Electoral District No. 8 Youth Council has launched a blistering attack on what it describes as an illegal and politically motivated attempt to unseat the leadership of the District No. 8 Development Council, warning that the move threatens the stability of the district and undermines democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">At a heated press conference Tuesday, Dec. 30, District Youth Coordinator Zac T. Sherman accused certain members of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512310063.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>Published: December 30, 2025 MONROVIA, Liberia &#8212; The Montserrado County Electoral District No. 8 Youth Council has launched a blistering attack on what it describes as an illegal and politically motivated attempt to unseat the leadership of the District No. 8 Development Council, warning that the move threatens the stability of the district and undermines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218673,"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":[8893,258,256,11188,53287,8614,5097,11189,10821,6918,8771,4712,1107,257,16579,4365,6378,7047,254,8619],"class_list":["post-218672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cry","tag-ddc","tag-district","tag-forces","tag-foul","tag-grab","tag-illegal","tag-leadership","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-oust","tag-plot","tag-political","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youths"],"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\/218672","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=218672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}