{"id":228086,"date":"2026-03-23T13:35:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-cummings-urges-diplomacy-and-independent-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T11:35:20","slug":"liberia-cummings-urges-diplomacy-and-independent-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-cummings-urges-diplomacy-and-independent-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Cummings Urges Diplomacy and Independent Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Monrovia \u2014 <strong>The Political Leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander Benedict Cummings, has issued a strong statement addressing recent developments along Liberia&#8217;s border with Guinea.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><strong>According to Mr. Cummings, troubling incidents have unfolded over the past week, particularly in the Sorlumba area. Reports indicate that Guinean soldiers have crossed into Liberian territory, causing displacement among local residents&#8211;an issue he described as deeply concerning and one that&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603230290.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 The Political Leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander Benedict Cummings, has issued a strong statement addressing recent developments along Liberia&#8217;s border with Guinea. According to Mr. Cummings, troubling incidents have unfolded over the past week, particularly in the Sorlumba area. Reports indicate that Guinean soldiers have crossed into Liberian territory, causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228087,"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":[258,256,6825,10059,1124,7523,4712,257,5805,254,6810],"class_list":["post-228086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cummings","tag-diplomacy","tag-guinea-news","tag-independent","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-probe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"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\/228086","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=228086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}