{"id":228915,"date":"2026-03-29T13:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cole-rejects-push-to-expel-kolubah-calls-for-due-process-as-border-tensions-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T11:51:38","slug":"liberia-cole-rejects-push-to-expel-kolubah-calls-for-due-process-as-border-tensions-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cole-rejects-push-to-expel-kolubah-calls-for-due-process-as-border-tensions-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Cole Rejects Push to Expel Kolubah, Calls for Due Process As Border Tensions Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">MONROVIA \u2014 Bong County District 3 Rep. Josiah Marvin Cole has rejected calls to expel fellow lawmaker Rep. Yekeh Kolubah, urging restraint and due process as tensions mount over the disputed Sorluma border in Lofa County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Speaking at a press briefing Thursday, March 26, Cole said Kolubah must be given the opportunity to explain his controversial remarks rather than face immediate punitive action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Kolubah sparked outrage after claiming that the disputed Sorluma area in Foya District belongs to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270393.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROVIA \u2014 Bong County District 3 Rep. Josiah Marvin Cole has rejected calls to expel fellow lawmaker Rep. Yekeh Kolubah, urging restraint and due process as tensions mount over the disputed Sorluma border in Lofa County. Speaking at a press briefing Thursday, March 26, Cole said Kolubah must be given the opportunity to explain his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228916,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,1900,6137,15517,6605,19849,34987,4712,1107,257,5755,6354,8440,10256,254,7182],"class_list":["post-228915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-border","tag-calls","tag-cole","tag-due","tag-expel","tag-kolubah","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-process","tag-push","tag-rejects","tag-rise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tensions"],"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\/228915","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=228915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}