{"id":223293,"date":"2026-02-09T12:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-pushes-back-as-boakai-seeks-to-unravel-controversial-tia-deal\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:03:20","slug":"liberia-senate-pushes-back-as-boakai-seeks-to-unravel-controversial-tia-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-pushes-back-as-boakai-seeks-to-unravel-controversial-tia-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senate Pushes Back As Boakai Seeks to Unravel Controversial TIA Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">A deepening standoff between Liberia&#8217;s Executive and Legislature has thrust the controversial Telecom International Alliance (TIA) agreement back into the national spotlight, reopening long-standing debates about corruption, due process, and the balance between reform and investor confidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">At the center of the dispute is President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s request that the Legislature de-ratify the TIA-Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) agreement for telecom traffic monitoring services&#8211;an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602090143.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>A deepening standoff between Liberia&#8217;s Executive and Legislature has thrust the controversial Telecom International Alliance (TIA) agreement back into the national spotlight, reopening long-standing debates about corruption, due process, and the balance between reform and investor confidence. At the center of the dispute is President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s request that the Legislature de-ratify the TIA-Liberia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223294,"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":[258,256,7324,11087,7012,4712,1107,257,16296,8111,8115,254,31891,26331],"class_list":["post-223293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-controversial","tag-deal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-seeks","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tia","tag-unravel"],"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\/223293","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=223293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}