{"id":222934,"date":"2026-02-05T23:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-ivanhoe-atlantic-ceo-quits-as-guinea-roadblocks-threaten-liberia-rail-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:52:12","slug":"liberia-ivanhoe-atlantic-ceo-quits-as-guinea-roadblocks-threaten-liberia-rail-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-ivanhoe-atlantic-ceo-quits-as-guinea-roadblocks-threaten-liberia-rail-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ivanhoe Atlantic CEO Quits As Guinea Roadblocks Threaten Liberia Rail Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Monrovia \u2014 The resignation of Bronwyn Barnes as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Atlantic is the strongest indication yet that the U.S.-backed iron ore project linking Guinea to Liberia is facing serious trouble, with far-reaching implications for Liberia&#8217;s rail, mining, and infrastructure ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Barnes&#8217; exit comes barely months after the Liberian government celebrated a US$1.8 billion agreement with Ivanhoe Atlantic to establish a new cross-border rail corridor that would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050559.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The resignation of Bronwyn Barnes as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ivanhoe Atlantic is the strongest indication yet that the U.S.-backed iron ore project linking Guinea to Liberia is facing serious trouble, with far-reaching implications for Liberia&#8217;s rail, mining, and infrastructure ambitions. Barnes&#8217; exit comes barely months after the Liberian government celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680696:60d00dcadb22961f76ad4f31353beb02:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,15350,7213,7012,4715,1124,51824,4712,257,14361,7366,11047,254,7002],"class_list":["post-222934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atlantic","tag-ceo","tag-deal","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-ivanhoe","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-quits","tag-rail","tag-roadblocks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threaten"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680696:60d00dcadb22961f76ad4f31353beb02:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222934","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=222934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}