{"id":221621,"date":"2026-01-23T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-roads-to-nowhere-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:21:55","slug":"liberia-roads-to-nowhere-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-roads-to-nowhere-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Roads to Nowhere? &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Gweayea Residents Accuse CHICO of Betrayal, Halt Work&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Pavement works along the Gbarnga Mendikorma road were temporarily suspended on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, after residents of Gweayea Town, Electoral District Four, Bong County, staged a protest against CHICO, the Chinese road construction company operating in the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The protest, which brought operations at CHICO&#8217;s rock quarry to a standstill, was triggered by what residents described as the company&#8217;s failure to fully honor its social and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601220561.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>Gweayea Residents Accuse CHICO of Betrayal, Halt Work&#8221;. Pavement works along the Gbarnga Mendikorma road were temporarily suspended on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, after residents of Gweayea Town, Electoral District Four, Bong County, staged a protest against CHICO, the Chinese road construction company operating in the area. The protest, which brought operations at CHICO&#8217;s rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221622,"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":[258,256,42655,4712,1107,257,9013,254],"class_list":["post-221621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-roads","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\/221621","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=221621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}