{"id":228963,"date":"2026-03-30T01:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-deaf-national-team-storms-boakai-residence-over-funding-delays-risk-missing-international-competitions\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T01:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T23:52:08","slug":"liberia-deaf-national-team-storms-boakai-residence-over-funding-delays-risk-missing-international-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-deaf-national-team-storms-boakai-residence-over-funding-delays-risk-missing-international-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Deaf National Team Storms Boakai Residence Over Funding Delays, Risk Missing International Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Monrovia \u2014 Liberia&#8217;s Deaf National Team on Thursday staged an early morning protest outside the residence of President Joseph Boakai, decrying what they described as prolonged neglect by the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning over delays in disbursing funds for crucial international competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The aggrieved athletes, through their leadership, warned that the continued inaction threatens Liberia&#8217;s participation in two major tournaments scheduled for April in Cameroon and May in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603270313.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 Liberia&#8217;s Deaf National Team on Thursday staged an early morning protest outside the residence of President Joseph Boakai, decrying what they described as prolonged neglect by the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning over delays in disbursing funds for crucial international competitions. The aggrieved athletes, through their leadership, warned that the continued inaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228964,"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":[258,256,7324,8046,17456,6190,6141,4337,4712,1107,6947,6687,257,13187,9590,254,16293,7142],"class_list":["post-228963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-competitions","tag-deaf","tag-delays","tag-funding","tag-international","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-missing","tag-national","tag-news","tag-residence","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storms","tag-team"],"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\/228963","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=228963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}