{"id":227718,"date":"2026-03-21T13:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-high-alert-at-liberia-guinea-border\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:30:53","slug":"liberia-high-alert-at-liberia-guinea-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-high-alert-at-liberia-guinea-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: High Alert At Liberia-Guinea Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Sorlumba, Foya District, Lofa County, March 20: Speaking to reporters after visiting Sorlumba, a port of entry in Lofa County, on Thursday, March 19, 2026, Col. Coleman stated, &#8220;The situation at the Liberia-Guinea border remains a high alert situation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The tensions trace back to March 2, 2026, when workers from BK Enterprise, a company contracted to carry out the Foya-Vahun road and street pavement project, were confronted by armed Guinean soldiers at the Sorlumba border crossing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Residents&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200085.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>Sorlumba, Foya District, Lofa County, March 20: Speaking to reporters after visiting Sorlumba, a port of entry in Lofa County, on Thursday, March 19, 2026, Col. Coleman stated, &#8220;The situation at the Liberia-Guinea border remains a high alert situation.&#8221; The tensions trace back to March 2, 2026, when workers from BK Enterprise, a company contracted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227719,"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":[258,256,13490,1900,1124,6184,4712,8241,257,254],"class_list":["post-227718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alert","tag-border","tag-guinea-news","tag-high","tag-liberia","tag-liberiaguinea","tag-news","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\/227718","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=227718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}