{"id":227293,"date":"2026-03-19T01:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-resource-rivalry-the-untold-story-of-mahcustom-border-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:28:57","slug":"liberia-resource-rivalry-the-untold-story-of-mahcustom-border-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-resource-rivalry-the-untold-story-of-mahcustom-border-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Resource Rivalry &#8211; The Untold Story of Mahcustom Border Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Investigations by <em>The New Dawn<\/em> indicate that the border tension between Liberia and Guinea in Mahcustom Village is primarily driven by competing claims over mineral resources in the Makona River, rather than boundary disagreements alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Sources familiar with the situation report that confrontations near the Sorlumba entrance in Foya District stem from diamond and mineral mining activities along the river. Guinean authorities have accused a Liberian firm, BK Enterprise Engineering Consultant and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180468.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigations by The New Dawn indicate that the border tension between Liberia and Guinea in Mahcustom Village is primarily driven by competing claims over mineral resources in the Makona River, rather than boundary disagreements alone. Sources familiar with the situation report that confrontations near the Sorlumba entrance in Foya District stem from diamond and mineral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227294,"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":[258,256,1900,2444,4712,1107,53938,257,7256,12644,254,12231,24793],"class_list":["post-227293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-conflict","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mahcustom","tag-news","tag-resource","tag-rivalry","tag-south-africa-today","tag-story","tag-untold"],"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\/227293","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=227293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}