{"id":223796,"date":"2026-02-15T00:14:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-former-nsa-boss-warns-urges-security-reform-and-strategic-clarity\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T00:14:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T22:14:52","slug":"liberia-former-nsa-boss-warns-urges-security-reform-and-strategic-clarity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-former-nsa-boss-warns-urges-security-reform-and-strategic-clarity\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Former NSA Boss Warns, Urges Security Reform and Strategic Clarity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The Chief Executive Officer of Crime Stoppers Liberia and former Deputy Director for Operations at the National Security Agency (NSA), Sam Saryon, has issued a stark warning that West Africa now accounts for 51 percent of global terrorism-related deaths in 2024, describing the trend as a serious threat to regional stability and state sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking as a guest on Citizens&#8217; Hour on West African Democracy Radio, Mr. Saryon said the region has become the new global epicenter of violent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130251.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>The Chief Executive Officer of Crime Stoppers Liberia and former Deputy Director for Operations at the National Security Agency (NSA), Sam Saryon, has issued a stark warning that West Africa now accounts for 51 percent of global terrorism-related deaths in 2024, describing the trend as a serious threat to regional stability and state sovereignty. Speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223797,"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":[258,256,6962,16748,4712,1107,257,8876,6099,4586,254,8007,6810,6853],"class_list":["post-223796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boss","tag-clarity","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nsa","tag-reform","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-urges","tag-warns"],"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\/223796","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=223796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}