{"id":222203,"date":"2026-01-29T11:37:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-moves-to-protect-liberias-oldest-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:37:01","slug":"liberia-boakai-moves-to-protect-liberias-oldest-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-moves-to-protect-liberias-oldest-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Moves to Protect Liberia&#8217;s Oldest Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has reaffirmed his administration&#8217;s commitment to resolving the long-standing issue surrounding the relocation of the historic Palm Grove Cemetery, describing it as a matter of national honor, dignity, and historical responsibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Delivering his 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Boakai acknowledged that, while Liberia continues to register progress, unresolved national concerns remain, weighing heavily on the country&#8217;s conscience and requiring&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290152.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>President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has reaffirmed his administration&#8217;s commitment to resolving the long-standing issue surrounding the relocation of the historic Palm Grove Cemetery, describing it as a matter of national honor, dignity, and historical responsibility. Delivering his 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Boakai acknowledged that, while Liberia continues to register progress, unresolved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222204,"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":[258,256,7324,7173,4712,1107,8536,6858,257,20135,6202,254],"class_list":["post-222203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-cemetery","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-oldest","tag-protect","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\/222203","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=222203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}