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When foreign soldiers cross into a country’s territory, remove its flag, and raise their own, the act carries a meaning that goes far beyond a simple border dispute.<\/p>\n
In the language of international relations, such a gesture is rarely interpreted as a misunderstanding. It is often viewed as a test.<\/p>\n
That is why the reported incursion by Guinean troops into Lofa County presents Liberia with more than a diplomatic challenge. It presents a constitutional moment.<\/p>\n
\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> When foreign soldiers cross into a country’s territory, remove its flag, and raise their own, the act carries a meaning that goes far beyond a simple border dispute. In the language of international relations, such a gesture is rarely interpreted as a misunderstanding. It is often viewed as a test. That is why the reported […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226959,"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":[258,256,9848,1900,3994,10059,4712,1107,257,254,864],"class_list":["post-226958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-balance","tag-border","tag-constitution","tag-diplomacy","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty"],"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\/226958","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=226958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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