{"id":226820,"date":"2026-03-14T01:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-denied-bail-for-the-fourth-time\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:14:38","slug":"west-africa-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-denied-bail-for-the-fourth-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-opposition-flagbearer-aspirant-denied-bail-for-the-fourth-time\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Opposition Flagbearer Aspirant Denied Bail for the Fourth Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Zainab Sheriff, a flagbearer aspirant of the opposition All People&#8217;s Congress (APC) and chairperson of the &#8220;Wi Duti Lappa&#8221; movement, remains in detention after being charged with &#8220;incitement and threatening language&#8221; over remarks she is alleged to have made at an APC gathering in Freetown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">&#8220;Wi Duti Lappa,&#8221; loosely translated from Krio as &#8220;our duty cloth&#8221; or &#8220;our shared responsibility,&#8221; is a civic movement founded by Zainab Sheriff (who is also a model and musician) that promotes women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130070.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zainab Sheriff, a flagbearer aspirant of the opposition All People&#8217;s Congress (APC) and chairperson of the &#8220;Wi Duti Lappa&#8221; movement, remains in detention after being charged with &#8220;incitement and threatening language&#8221; over remarks she is alleged to have made at an APC gathering in Freetown. &#8220;Wi Duti Lappa,&#8221; loosely translated from Krio as &#8220;our duty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226821,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,8453,7900,7634,42368,15935,257,5675,1135,254,6599,4375],"class_list":["post-226820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aspirant","tag-bail","tag-denied","tag-flagbearer","tag-fourth","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-time","tag-west"],"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\/226820","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=226820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}