{"id":229401,"date":"2026-04-03T14:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fear-grips-business-owners-in-bong-and-nimba-amid-guinea-liberia-border-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:04:29","slug":"liberia-fear-grips-business-owners-in-bong-and-nimba-amid-guinea-liberia-border-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fear-grips-business-owners-in-bong-and-nimba-amid-guinea-liberia-border-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Fear Grips Business Owners in Bong and Nimba Amid Guinea-Liberia Border Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Ganta \u2014 The ongoing border crisis between Guinea and Liberia at the Sorlumah crossing in Lofa County has sparked widespread panic among business owners and daily cross-border travelers, grinding commerce to a near halt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Guinean national security forces reportedly crossed into Liberia&#8217;s side of the border amid escalating disputes in Lofa County, the home town of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, triggering a standoff that has paralyzed normal activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">What was once a vibrant artery for trade,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030342.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>Ganta \u2014 The ongoing border crisis between Guinea and Liberia at the Sorlumah crossing in Lofa County has sparked widespread panic among business owners and daily cross-border travelers, grinding commerce to a near halt. Guinean national security forces reportedly crossed into Liberia&#8217;s side of the border amid escalating disputes in Lofa County, the home town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229402,"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":[4338,258,256,2960,1900,3723,12166,9069,38798,4712,1107,257,2962,12366,254],"class_list":["post-229401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bong","tag-border","tag-crisis","tag-fear","tag-grips","tag-guinealiberia","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nimba","tag-owners","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/229401","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=229401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}