{"id":223183,"date":"2026-02-08T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-historic-milestone-liberias-kickball-set-for-debut-at-all-african-games\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:59:45","slug":"liberia-historic-milestone-liberias-kickball-set-for-debut-at-all-african-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-historic-milestone-liberias-kickball-set-for-debut-at-all-african-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Historic Milestone &#8211; Liberia&#8217;s Kickball Set for Debut At All-African Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Monrovia \u2014 In a major boost for Liberian sports, kickball has been officially confirmed for inclusion in the All-African Games (AAG) starting this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The landmark announcement was made by Mr. Swahilu K. Jusu, President of the All-African Games, on February 5, 2026, during the official inauguration of the sport in Freetown, Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Mr. Jusu, who also serves as the Permanent Secretary of Sierra Leone&#8217;s Ministry of Sports, revealed that the decision to elevate kickball to the continental&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060290.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 \u2014 In a major boost for Liberian sports, kickball has been officially confirmed for inclusion in the All-African Games (AAG) starting this year. The landmark announcement was made by Mr. Swahilu K. Jusu, President of the All-African Games, on February 5, 2026, during the official inauguration of the sport in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223184,"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":[258,256,15504,12156,6731,13203,24884,4712,1107,8536,12070,257,7106,254],"class_list":["post-223183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrican","tag-debut","tag-games","tag-historic","tag-kickball","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-milestone","tag-news","tag-set","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\/223183","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=223183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}