{"id":229546,"date":"2026-04-05T02:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fifa-threatens-lfa-with-global-ban-over-third-party-interference-in-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T00:07:18","slug":"liberia-fifa-threatens-lfa-with-global-ban-over-third-party-interference-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-fifa-threatens-lfa-with-global-ban-over-third-party-interference-in-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: FIFA Threatens LFA With Global Ban Over &#8216;Third-Party Interference&#8217; in Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Monrovia \u2014 The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has issued a blistering warning to the Liberia Football Association (LFA), stating that the country faces a potential suspension from all global football activities following a court-ordered halt to the LFA&#8217;s elective congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">In a strongly worded letter dated April 2, 2026, and addressed to LFA General Secretary Emmett Crayton, the world football governing body expressed &#8220;serious concern&#8221; over a March 24 ruling by the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604030508.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 The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) has issued a blistering warning to the Liberia Football Association (LFA), stating that the country faces a potential suspension from all global football activities following a court-ordered halt to the LFA&#8217;s elective congress. In a strongly worded letter dated April 2, 2026, and addressed to LFA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229547,"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":[258,256,7185,821,9109,6212,13371,15550,4712,1107,257,254,54093,10413],"class_list":["post-229546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ban","tag-elections","tag-fifa","tag-global","tag-interference","tag-lfa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thirdparty","tag-threatens"],"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\/229546","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=229546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}