{"id":226903,"date":"2026-03-15T01:15:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-war-is-inevitable-says-ex-rebel-commander-gen-butt-naked-amid-liberia-guinea-border-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T01:15:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T23:15:41","slug":"liberia-war-is-inevitable-says-ex-rebel-commander-gen-butt-naked-amid-liberia-guinea-border-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-war-is-inevitable-says-ex-rebel-commander-gen-butt-naked-amid-liberia-guinea-border-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;War Is Inevitable,&#8217; Says Ex-Rebel Commander &#8216;Gen. Butt Naked&#8217; Amid Liberia-Guinea Border Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">MONROVIA \u2014 Former warlord-turned-evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi has warned that Liberia could face another armed conflict if tensions along the Liberia-Guinea border escalate, urging the government to strengthen the country&#8217;s military preparedness before the situation worsens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Blahyi, widely known during Liberia&#8217;s civil war by his nom de guerre &#8220;General Butt Naked&#8221;, made the remarks Thursday, March 12, as concerns grow over a series of incidents along the northern frontier in Lofa County, where&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130350.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>MONROVIA \u2014 Former warlord-turned-evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi has warned that Liberia could face another armed conflict if tensions along the Liberia-Guinea border escalate, urging the government to strengthen the country&#8217;s military preparedness before the situation worsens. Blahyi, widely known during Liberia&#8217;s civil war by his nom de guerre &#8220;General Butt Naked&#8221;, made the remarks Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226904,"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":[258,256,1900,36834,6771,7446,11240,1124,11662,4712,8241,15857,257,254,7182,6618],"class_list":["post-226903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-butt","tag-commander","tag-exrebel","tag-gen","tag-guinea-news","tag-inevitable","tag-liberia","tag-liberiaguinea","tag-naked","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions","tag-war"],"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\/226903","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=226903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}