{"id":227178,"date":"2026-03-18T01:22:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-guinea-troops-back-down-but-boakai-holds-firm-on-defense-consultations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:22:45","slug":"liberia-guinea-troops-back-down-but-boakai-holds-firm-on-defense-consultations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-guinea-troops-back-down-but-boakai-holds-firm-on-defense-consultations\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Guinea Troops Back Down, but Boakai Holds Firm On Defense Consultations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The withdrawal of Guinean troops from a disputed border point in Lofa County has eased immediate tensions along the Liberia-Guinea frontier, but President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is continuing consultations with the Legislature, signaling that the government still regards the incident as a serious national security matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Authorities in Monrovia confirmed that Guinean forces have pulled back from the Sorlumba border area, where soldiers had earlier removed the Liberian flag and raised Guinea&#8217;s flag&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603120252.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>The withdrawal of Guinean troops from a disputed border point in Lofa County has eased immediate tensions along the Liberia-Guinea frontier, but President Joseph Nyuma Boakai is continuing consultations with the Legislature, signaling that the government still regards the incident as a serious national security matter. Authorities in Monrovia confirmed that Guinean forces have pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680928:6d7b18f807f7aa324d6edb8e05775a85:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,7324,8293,8027,7559,4715,1124,6275,4712,257,254,8515],"class_list":["post-227178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-consultations","tag-defense","tag-firm","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-holds","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680928:6d7b18f807f7aa324d6edb8e05775a85:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227178","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=227178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}