{"id":220885,"date":"2026-01-18T11:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-enforces-digital-mineral-licensing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:09:57","slug":"liberia-govt-enforces-digital-mineral-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-govt-enforces-digital-mineral-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Govt Enforces Digital Mineral Licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), has announced the transition to a fully online system for mineral rights applications, with the paper-based process set to end on February 15, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">After the February 15 deadline, the Mines and Energy Ministry says, it will no longer accept paper-based submissions under any circumstances. The Ministry noted that moving forward, all applications must be submitted exclusively through the Ministry&#8217;s Online Repository Platform&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160502.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>The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME), has announced the transition to a fully online system for mineral rights applications, with the paper-based process set to end on February 15, 2026. After the February 15 deadline, the Mines and Energy Ministry says, it will no longer accept paper-based submissions under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220886,"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":[258,256,9633,53442,4357,4712,1107,14092,6272,257,254],"class_list":["post-220885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-digital","tag-enforces","tag-govt","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-licensing","tag-mineral","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\/220885","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=220885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}