{"id":219812,"date":"2026-01-09T22:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-breaking-news-former-liberian-defense-minister-declares-2029-intention\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T22:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T20:50:59","slug":"liberia-breaking-news-former-liberian-defense-minister-declares-2029-intention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-breaking-news-former-liberian-defense-minister-declares-2029-intention\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Breaking News &#8211; Former Liberian Defense Minister Declares 2029 Intention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Liberia&#8217;s former Defense Minister Brownie Samukai Jr. has officially announced his candidacy for the Lofa County Senatorial Seat in the upcoming 2029 elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The declaration was made during a radio interview in Paynesville on Thursday, January 8, 2026, where Mr. Samukai articulated a strong resolve to facilitate a transformative era for Lofa County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"65\">It could be recalled that in 2021, Brownie Samukai won the Lofa County Senatorial Seat. However, his induction was subsequently revoked by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601090446.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>Liberia&#8217;s former Defense Minister Brownie Samukai Jr. has officially announced his candidacy for the Lofa County Senatorial Seat in the upcoming 2029 elections. The declaration was made during a radio interview in Paynesville on Thursday, January 8, 2026, where Mr. Samukai articulated a strong resolve to facilitate a transformative era for Lofa County. It could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219813,"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":[258,256,4286,7030,8027,19912,4712,1107,1090,5941,257,254],"class_list":["post-219812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breaking","tag-declares","tag-defense","tag-intention","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-minister","tag-news","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\/219812","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=219812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}