{"id":227248,"date":"2026-03-18T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-renewed-tensions-as-guinean-soldiers-cross-into-liberian-territory-in-lofa-a-day-after-conakry-summit-govt-announces-measures-to-ease-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:23:40","slug":"liberia-renewed-tensions-as-guinean-soldiers-cross-into-liberian-territory-in-lofa-a-day-after-conakry-summit-govt-announces-measures-to-ease-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-renewed-tensions-as-guinean-soldiers-cross-into-liberian-territory-in-lofa-a-day-after-conakry-summit-govt-announces-measures-to-ease-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Renewed Tensions As Guinean Soldiers Cross Into Liberian Territory in Lofa a Day After Conakry Summit, Govt Announces Measures to Ease Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Monrovia \u2014 Fresh concerns have emerged along the Liberia-Guinea border after reports confirmed that armed Guinean soldiers crossed into Liberian territory in Lofa County, barely a day after a high-level summit in Conakry aimed at easing tensions between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Eyewitness accounts and local authorities in Lofa say the soldiers crossed at the Sorlumba crossing point, moving beyond the Makona River&#8211;internationally recognized as the boundary between Liberia and Guinea&#8211;into Liberian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180137.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 Fresh concerns have emerged along the Liberia-Guinea border after reports confirmed that armed Guinean soldiers crossed into Liberian territory in Lofa County, barely a day after a high-level summit in Conakry aimed at easing tensions between the two countries. Eyewitness accounts and local authorities in Lofa say the soldiers crossed at the Sorlumba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227249,"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\/00680935:8046a29a671b5353e0894ee459edef37:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,4334,1235,8816,7165,5985,5140,4357,1124,6016,4712,1090,1725,7305,257,6391,4401,254,5757,7182,5072],"class_list":["post-227248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-conakry","tag-cross","tag-day","tag-ease","tag-fears","tag-govt","tag-guinea-news","tag-guinean","tag-liberia","tag-liberian","tag-lofa","tag-measures","tag-news","tag-renewed","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-tensions","tag-territory"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680935:8046a29a671b5353e0894ee459edef37:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227248","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=227248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}