{"id":227400,"date":"2026-03-20T01:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-guinean-soldiers-return-after-a-brief-scare\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:30:31","slug":"liberia-guinean-soldiers-return-after-a-brief-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-guinean-soldiers-return-after-a-brief-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Guinean Soldiers Return After a Brief Scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Sorlumba Town, Foya District, Lofa County, March 18, 2026 | Calm has returned to the border town after the presence of some 40 Guinean soldiers caused a scare in the early hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Guinean soldiers reportedly crossed into Liberian territory late Monday night, entering the Mahcustom border area in Foya District, causing fears among the local population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">However, the soldiers returned to their side of the border late Tuesday after meeting with their Liberian counterparts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603190655.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>Sorlumba Town, Foya District, Lofa County, March 18, 2026 | Calm has returned to the border town after the presence of some 40 Guinean soldiers caused a scare in the early hours of Tuesday. The Guinean soldiers reportedly crossed into Liberian territory late Monday night, entering the Mahcustom border area in Foya District, causing fears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227401,"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":[258,256,6016,4712,1107,257,6656,13126,4401,254],"class_list":["post-227400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-guinean","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-return","tag-scare","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/227400","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=227400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}