{"id":224132,"date":"2026-02-18T12:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-gives-green-light-atty-cornelia-kruah-confirmed-as-minister-of-youth-and-sports\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:22:15","slug":"liberia-senate-gives-green-light-atty-cornelia-kruah-confirmed-as-minister-of-youth-and-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senate-gives-green-light-atty-cornelia-kruah-confirmed-as-minister-of-youth-and-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senate Gives Green Light &#8211; Atty. Cornelia Kruah Confirmed As Minister of Youth and Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberian Senate has officially confirmed Atty. Cornelia W. Kruah as the nation&#8217;s new Minister of Youth and Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In a decisive show of support, 20 senators voted in favor of her nomination, placing her at the helm of one of the country&#8217;s most socially sensitive and high-pressure ministries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The confirmation comes at a critical juncture as Liberia grapples with skyrocketing youth unemployment, fragile sports governance, and mounting public demand for reform within national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180215.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 The Liberian Senate has officially confirmed Atty. Cornelia W. Kruah as the nation&#8217;s new Minister of Youth and Sports. In a decisive show of support, 20 senators voted in favor of her nomination, placing her at the helm of one of the country&#8217;s most socially sensitive and high-pressure ministries. The confirmation comes at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224133,"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":[258,256,14237,8743,53691,12626,45407,4712,1107,11281,5941,257,8115,254,8045,6276],"class_list":["post-224132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atty","tag-confirmed","tag-cornelia","tag-green","tag-kruah","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-light","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-youth"],"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\/224132","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=224132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}