{"id":228598,"date":"2026-03-26T13:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-speaker-koon-calls-for-urgent-mru-parliamentary-meeting-in-abidjan-over-border-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:47:58","slug":"liberia-speaker-koon-calls-for-urgent-mru-parliamentary-meeting-in-abidjan-over-border-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-speaker-koon-calls-for-urgent-mru-parliamentary-meeting-in-abidjan-over-border-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Speaker Koon Calls for Urgent MRU Parliamentary Meeting in Abidjan Over Border Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Monrovia \u2014 The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia, Richard Nagbe Koon, has called for an urgent meeting among Speakers and Presidents of Parliament and National Assemblies of the Mano River Union (MRU) Member States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The proposed high-level meeting is expected to take place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from March 28 to 30, 2026, aimed at addressing growing concerns over recent border tensions within the sub-region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a communication, Speaker Koon expressed deep concern over&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603260104.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The Speaker of the House of Representatives of Liberia, Richard Nagbe Koon, has called for an urgent meeting among Speakers and Presidents of Parliament and National Assemblies of the Mano River Union (MRU) Member States. The proposed high-level meeting is expected to take place in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, from March 28 to 30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228599,"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":[1087],"tags":[2554,258,256,1900,6137,6183,6555,1218,47653,4712,6015,7070,257,5855,254,9632,7182,11318],"class_list":["post-228598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-calls","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-koon","tag-liberia","tag-meeting","tag-mru","tag-news","tag-parliamentary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker","tag-tensions","tag-urgent"],"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\/228598","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=228598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}