{"id":222783,"date":"2026-02-04T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-living-in-pains-tears-as-citizens-wrestle-with-growing-displacement-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:50:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T09:50:34","slug":"liberia-living-in-pains-tears-as-citizens-wrestle-with-growing-displacement-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-living-in-pains-tears-as-citizens-wrestle-with-growing-displacement-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Living in Pains &#038; Tears &#8211; As Citizens Wrestle With Growing Displacement Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Thousands of Liberians&#8211;mothers, fathers, children, and the elderly are being pushed into uncertainty and despair as homes are flattened under what authorities describe as eviction orders and a broader government-led demolition drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Monrovia is experiencing an unprecedented wave of evictions and property demolitions, forcing families to wander from community to community in search of shelter, or to crowd in temporarily with relatives and friends while they struggle to rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602040057.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>Thousands of Liberians&#8211;mothers, fathers, children, and the elderly are being pushed into uncertainty and despair as homes are flattened under what authorities describe as eviction orders and a broader government-led demolition drive. Monrovia is experiencing an unprecedented wave of evictions and property demolitions, forcing families to wander from community to community in search of shelter, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222784,"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":[258,256,7604,3723,6318,10778,4712,1107,7741,257,43024,254,23916,53566],"class_list":["post-222783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-citizens","tag-crisis","tag-growing","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-living","tag-news","tag-pains","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tears","tag-wrestle"],"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\/222783","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=222783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}