{"id":222677,"date":"2026-02-03T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-announces-candidacy-for-african-union-peace-and-security-council\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:47:37","slug":"liberia-announces-candidacy-for-african-union-peace-and-security-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-announces-candidacy-for-african-union-peace-and-security-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Announces Candidacy for African Union Peace and Security Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Monrovia, Liberia &#8211; 2 February 2026 &#8211; Liberia will present its candidacy for a seat on the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC), representing the Western Region for the period 2026-2028, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The elections will be held during the 48th Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive Council, scheduled for 11-12 February 2026, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Liberia&#8217;s decision to vie for this seat reflects its enduring commitment to the principles of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030120.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>Monrovia, Liberia &#8211; 2 February 2026 &#8211; Liberia will present its candidacy for a seat on the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC), representing the Western Region for the period 2026-2028, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced. The elections will be held during the 48th Ordinary Session of the African Union Executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222678,"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":[258,256,4380,4334,9129,6158,4712,1107,257,6157,4586,254,6156],"class_list":["post-222677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-announces","tag-candidacy","tag-council","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"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\/222677","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=222677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}