{"id":226983,"date":"2026-03-16T01:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-koijee-accuses-minister-nyumalin-of-illegal-mining-role-in-liberia-guinea-border-tension\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:18:01","slug":"liberia-koijee-accuses-minister-nyumalin-of-illegal-mining-role-in-liberia-guinea-border-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-koijee-accuses-minister-nyumalin-of-illegal-mining-role-in-liberia-guinea-border-tension\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Koijee Accuses Minister Nyumalin of Illegal Mining Role in Liberia-Guinea Border Tension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Monrovia \u2014 Jefferson Tamba Koijee, Secretary General of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change, has accused Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Local Government, Francis Sakila Nyumalin, of fueling the ongoing tension along the Liberia-Guinea border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The dispute has heightened concerns in communities near the Makona River, particularly around the Sorlumba Clan area, where recent confrontations have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">When contacted by a FrontPage Africa reporter, Minister Nyumalin declined to respond to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603130245.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 Jefferson Tamba Koijee, Secretary General of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change, has accused Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Local Government, Francis Sakila Nyumalin, of fueling the ongoing tension along the Liberia-Guinea border. The dispute has heightened concerns in communities near the Makona River, particularly around the Sorlumba Clan area, where recent confrontations have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":226984,"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":[5070,258,256,1900,1124,6918,19296,4712,8241,6477,5941,257,53918,8225,254,7180],"class_list":["post-226983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-guinea-news","tag-illegal","tag-koijee","tag-liberia","tag-liberiaguinea","tag-mining","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nyumalin","tag-role","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tension"],"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\/226983","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=226983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}