{"id":229498,"date":"2026-04-04T14:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-ex-combatants-send-strong-message-to-guinea\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T14:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T12:03:58","slug":"liberia-ex-combatants-send-strong-message-to-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-ex-combatants-send-strong-message-to-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ex-Combatants Send Strong Message to Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Ganta \u2014 <strong>A former freedom fighter from Liberia&#8217;s civil war, General K. Gblorgbay Young, has urged citizens not to panic amid rising tensions along the border between Liberia and Guinea, while warning that ex-combatants stand ready to defend the country if necessary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><strong>Speaking at a press conference on Monday, March 23, 2026, in Ganta, Nimba County, Young assured Liberians that &#8220;there are men to defend the country,&#8221; noting that former fighters are on standby awaiting orders.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><strong>He, however, issued a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240186.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>Ganta \u2014 A former freedom fighter from Liberia&#8217;s civil war, General K. Gblorgbay Young, has urged citizens not to panic amid rising tensions along the border between Liberia and Guinea, while warning that ex-combatants stand ready to defend the country if necessary. Speaking at a press conference on Monday, March 23, 2026, in Ganta, Nimba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680935:8046a29a671b5353e0894ee459edef37:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,11159,4715,1124,4712,8147,257,5213,254,6948],"class_list":["post-229498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-excombatants","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-liberia","tag-message","tag-news","tag-send","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strong"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680935:8046a29a671b5353e0894ee459edef37:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229498","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=229498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}