{"id":219202,"date":"2026-01-04T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-returns-to-the-un-security-council-after-64-years\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:38:12","slug":"liberia-returns-to-the-un-security-council-after-64-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-returns-to-the-un-security-council-after-64-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Returns to the UN Security Council After 64 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Sixty-four years after it last sat at the world&#8217;s most powerful peace and security table, Liberia on Friday formally reclaimed its place on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), marking a watershed moment in the country&#8217;s diplomatic history and underscoring what many observers describe as the single most significant foreign policy achievement of the Boakai administration so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"85\">The historic return was sealed at a solemn flag installation ceremony at the UN Headquarters in New York, where&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601040014.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>Sixty-four years after it last sat at the world&#8217;s most powerful peace and security table, Liberia on Friday formally reclaimed its place on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), marking a watershed moment in the country&#8217;s diplomatic history and underscoring what many observers describe as the single most significant foreign policy achievement of the Boakai [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219203,"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":[258,256,6158,4712,1107,257,5068,4586,254,5114],"class_list":["post-219202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-council","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-returns","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-years"],"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\/219202","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=219202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}