{"id":228028,"date":"2026-03-23T01:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-boakai-calls-for-calm-amid-border-tensions-with-guinea\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T01:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T23:34:20","slug":"liberia-boakai-calls-for-calm-amid-border-tensions-with-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-boakai-calls-for-calm-amid-border-tensions-with-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Calls for Calm Amid Border Tensions With Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em>Monrovia, Liberia, March 18, 2026<\/em> &#8212; Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Wednesday urged calm as his government works through diplomatic channels to ease tensions along the Liberia-Guinea border in Lofa County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In a national address, Boakai said Liberia is engaging Guinea and regional partners to prevent escalation and preserve stability, stressing that dialogue remains the government&#8217;s preferred approach to resolving the dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The situation centers on Sorlumba in Foya District, near&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603190011.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, Liberia, March 18, 2026 &#8212; Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Wednesday urged calm as his government works through diplomatic channels to ease tensions along the Liberia-Guinea border in Lofa County. In a national address, Boakai said Liberia is engaging Guinea and regional partners to prevent escalation and preserve stability, stressing that dialogue remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228029,"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\/00680974:6ffe2dc676455eb4ef568518f6673482:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,7324,1900,6137,9553,4715,1124,4712,257,254,7182],"class_list":["post-228028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-border","tag-calls","tag-calm","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680974:6ffe2dc676455eb4ef568518f6673482:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228028","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=228028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}