{"id":226822,"date":"2026-03-14T01:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-urged-to-act-against-illegal-foreign-settlers-in-forests\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T01:18:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T23:18:02","slug":"liberia-urged-to-act-against-illegal-foreign-settlers-in-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-urged-to-act-against-illegal-foreign-settlers-in-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Urged to Act Against Illegal Foreign Settlers in Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Othello B. Garblah, publisher of The New Dawn, has called on the Liberian government to take immediate action to remove foreigners living illegally in Liberia&#8217;s forested areas, particularly in Grand Gedeh and Nimba counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Garblah warned that the continued presence of these settlers has created uncertainty for local communities and undermines national control over forest lands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">According to Garblah, these individuals have been occupying forest lands for years without authorization, despite&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130598.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>Othello B. Garblah, publisher of The New Dawn, has called on the Liberian government to take immediate action to remove foreigners living illegally in Liberia&#8217;s forested areas, particularly in Grand Gedeh and Nimba counties. Garblah warned that the continued presence of these settlers has created uncertainty for local communities and undermines national control over forest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226823,"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":[6991,258,256,5169,9600,6918,4712,1107,257,17736,254,6206],"class_list":["post-226822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-foreign","tag-forests","tag-illegal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-settlers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"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\/226822","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=226822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}