{"id":223229,"date":"2026-02-09T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-rejects-boakais-request-to-de-ratify-tia-contract-citing-costly-arbitration-and-investment-risks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:01:29","slug":"liberia-senate-rejects-boakais-request-to-de-ratify-tia-contract-citing-costly-arbitration-and-investment-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-rejects-boakais-request-to-de-ratify-tia-contract-citing-costly-arbitration-and-investment-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senate Rejects Boakai&#8217;s Request to De-Ratify TIA Contract, Citing Costly Arbitration and Investment Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Capitol Hill Monrovia \u2014 The Plenary of the Liberian Senate has rejected a request from President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to de-ratify the controversial Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring Agreement between the Government of Liberia (GOL) and the U.S.-linked firm, Telecom International Alliance (TIA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The agreement, signed through the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), grants TIA responsibility for telecommunications traffic monitoring and revenue assurance services in Liberia. The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602060252.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>Capitol Hill Monrovia \u2014 The Plenary of the Liberian Senate has rejected a request from President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to de-ratify the controversial Telecommunications Traffic Monitoring Agreement between the Government of Liberia (GOL) and the U.S.-linked firm, Telecom International Alliance (TIA). The agreement, signed through the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), grants TIA responsibility for telecommunications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223230,"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":[258,256,21545,12935,6339,7062,7967,53184,6018,4712,1107,257,8440,8333,7349,8115,254,31891],"class_list":["post-223229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arbitration","tag-boakais","tag-citing","tag-contract","tag-costly","tag-deratify","tag-investment","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-request","tag-risks","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tia"],"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\/223229","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=223229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}