{"id":225023,"date":"2026-02-25T00:35:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-afl-demolishes-help-yourself-center-despite-legislative-plea\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T00:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:35:50","slug":"liberia-afl-demolishes-help-yourself-center-despite-legislative-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-afl-demolishes-help-yourself-center-despite-legislative-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Afl Demolishes &#8216;Help Yourself&#8217; Center Despite Legislative Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">&#8211; In a move that has sparked widespread condemnation, the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) demolished the popular &#8220;Help Yourself Entertainment Center&#8221; and several neighboring properties at 72nd Junction, Paynesville, despite recent intervention by the 55th National Legislature aimed at resolving the month-long land dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">AFL soldiers carried out the demolition on Friday, igniting outrage among residents and business owners near the 72nd Military Barracks. Many described the action as excessive and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602240695.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>&#8211; In a move that has sparked widespread condemnation, the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) demolished the popular &#8220;Help Yourself Entertainment Center&#8221; and several neighboring properties at 72nd Junction, Paynesville, despite recent intervention by the 55th National Legislature aimed at resolving the month-long land dispute. AFL soldiers carried out the demolition on Friday, igniting outrage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225024,"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":[14427,258,256,7621,16302,7579,4712,1107,257,11062,254],"class_list":["post-225023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-afl","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-center","tag-demolishes","tag-legislative","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-plea","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/225023","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=225023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}