{"id":227346,"date":"2026-03-19T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-boakai-moves-to-calm-border-tensions-says-pursuit-of-peace-not-a-sign-of-weakness\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T11:27:00","slug":"liberia-boakai-moves-to-calm-border-tensions-says-pursuit-of-peace-not-a-sign-of-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-boakai-moves-to-calm-border-tensions-says-pursuit-of-peace-not-a-sign-of-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Moves to Calm Border Tensions Says Pursuit of Peace &#8216;Not a Sign of Weakness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Monrovia \u2014 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. on Wednesday moved to calm rising tensions along Liberia&#8217;s northern frontier, assuring citizens that his administration remains firmly committed to peace despite alarming reports from the Guinea-Liberia border, and emphasizing that the country&#8217;s pursuit of diplomacy should not be mistaken for weakness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">In a national address delivered from the Executive Mansion in Monrovia, the Liberian leader spoke directly to growing public concern following a series&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603190183.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 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr. on Wednesday moved to calm rising tensions along Liberia&#8217;s northern frontier, assuring citizens that his administration remains firmly committed to peace despite alarming reports from the Guinea-Liberia border, and emphasizing that the country&#8217;s pursuit of diplomacy should not be mistaken for weakness. In a national address delivered from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227347,"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":[258,256,7324,1900,9553,1124,4712,6858,257,6157,30878,4368,254,7182,17860],"class_list":["post-227346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-border","tag-calm","tag-guinea-news","tag-liberia","tag-moves","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-pursuit","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions","tag-weakness"],"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\/227346","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=227346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}