{"id":224544,"date":"2026-02-21T00:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-seboe-sparks-gender-firestorm-over-scholarship-ban-cites-pregnancy-fears-critics-cry-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T22:26:35","slug":"liberia-seboe-sparks-gender-firestorm-over-scholarship-ban-cites-pregnancy-fears-critics-cry-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-seboe-sparks-gender-firestorm-over-scholarship-ban-cites-pregnancy-fears-critics-cry-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Seboe Sparks Gender Firestorm Over Scholarship Ban, Cites Pregnancy Fears &#8211; Critics Cry Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Montserrado County Electoral District 16 Rep. Dixon W. Seboe has ignited a political and gender equality storm after openly admitting that he deliberately excluded female constituents from his foreign scholarship program, arguing that sending girls abroad would expose him to &#8220;greater pain&#8221; if anything went wrong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The controversial remarks, delivered Wednesday during a combined 2024-2025 district report at the Borough Multipurpose House, have drawn sharp criticism from residents and youth leaders&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200603.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>Montserrado County Electoral District 16 Rep. Dixon W. Seboe has ignited a political and gender equality storm after openly admitting that he deliberately excluded female constituents from his foreign scholarship program, arguing that sending girls abroad would expose him to &#8220;greater pain&#8221; if anything went wrong. The controversial remarks, delivered Wednesday during a combined 2024-2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224545,"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":[258,256,7185,5260,8951,11188,9901,5140,53718,6029,4712,1107,257,9234,6625,22681,254,9617],"class_list":["post-224544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-cites","tag-critics","tag-cry","tag-discrimination","tag-fears","tag-firestorm","tag-gender","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pregnancy","tag-scholarship","tag-seboe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks"],"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\/224544","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=224544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}