{"id":228302,"date":"2026-03-24T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-strategy-over-showmanship-why-boakais-mano-river-union-mru-visit-to-guinea-is-a-masterclass-in-security\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:36:10","slug":"liberia-strategy-over-showmanship-why-boakais-mano-river-union-mru-visit-to-guinea-is-a-masterclass-in-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-strategy-over-showmanship-why-boakais-mano-river-union-mru-visit-to-guinea-is-a-masterclass-in-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Strategy Over Showmanship &#8211; Why Boakai&#8217;s Mano River Union (MRU) Visit to Guinea Is a Masterclass in Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">President Joseph Boakai&#8217;s decision to attend the MRU meeting in Conakry, despite Guinean military posturing at our borders, is not a weakness in security&#8211;it is an exercise of sovereign dominance that he&#8217;s a small boy. In the world of high-stakes diplomacy and war, showing up at the table while the other side looks with uncertainty, is the ultimate power move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">It signals that Liberia is neither intimidated by threats of war nor distracted by the &#8220;war drums&#8221; our overzealous neighbor is beating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180298.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>President Joseph Boakai&#8217;s decision to attend the MRU meeting in Conakry, despite Guinean military posturing at our borders, is not a weakness in security&#8211;it is an exercise of sovereign dominance that he&#8217;s a small boy. In the world of high-stakes diplomacy and war, showing up at the table while the other side looks with uncertainty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228303,"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":[258,256,12935,4715,1124,4712,30688,53138,7070,257,7263,4586,32483,254,6986,6156,6250],"class_list":["post-228302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakais","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-liberia","tag-mano","tag-masterclass","tag-mru","tag-news","tag-river","tag-security","tag-showmanship","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategy","tag-union","tag-visit"],"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\/228302","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=228302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}