{"id":226818,"date":"2026-03-14T01:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-ecowas-issues-stern-warning-over-lofa-and-yenga-border-disputes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:13:11","slug":"west-africa-ecowas-issues-stern-warning-over-lofa-and-yenga-border-disputes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-ecowas-issues-stern-warning-over-lofa-and-yenga-border-disputes\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Ecowas Issues Stern Warning Over Lofa and Yenga Border Disputes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has issued a stern warning to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, urging maximum restraint amid rising tensions along their shared borders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a statement released Thursday, March 12, 2026, from its Abuja headquarters, ECOWAS announced the deployment of a high-level technical assessment mission to the Mano River Basin to prevent further escalation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to the ECOWAS Commission, the urgent intervention follows recent incidents along the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130600.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has issued a stern warning to Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, urging maximum restraint amid rising tensions along their shared borders. In a statement released Thursday, March 12, 2026, from its Abuja headquarters, ECOWAS announced the deployment of a high-level technical assessment mission to the Mano River [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226819,"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":[1118],"tags":[258,256,1900,12689,2557,1124,8008,1725,257,254,8923,7282,4375,53899],"class_list":["post-226818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-disputes","tag-ecowas","tag-guinea-news","tag-issues","tag-lofa","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stern","tag-warning","tag-west","tag-yenga"],"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\/226818","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=226818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}