{"id":229836,"date":"2026-04-08T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-yamoussoukro-hosts-2026-africa-girls-summit-youth-leading-the-narratives-and-they-change-they-want\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T12:16:31","slug":"liberia-yamoussoukro-hosts-2026-africa-girls-summit-youth-leading-the-narratives-and-they-change-they-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-yamoussoukro-hosts-2026-africa-girls-summit-youth-leading-the-narratives-and-they-change-they-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Yamoussoukro Hosts 2026 Africa Girls Summit, Youth Leading the Narratives and They Change They Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The 2026 Africa Girls Summit (AGS) officially kicks off today in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s political capital, bringing together approximately 250 adolescents from 13 countries across the continent for a landmark gathering focused on leadership, rights, and social change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The summit, supported by Global Fund for Children and its partners, aims to empower young people especially adolescent girls to take on leadership roles in their communities while equipping them with practical tools for advocacy and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604080316.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2026 Africa Girls Summit (AGS) officially kicks off today in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire&#8217;s political capital, bringing together approximately 250 adolescents from 13 countries across the continent for a landmark gathering focused on leadership, rights, and social change. The summit, supported by Global Fund for Children and its partners, aims to empower young people especially adolescent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229837,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,7796,6183,6555,7010,6574,1218,6301,4712,31679,257,254,5757,36358,6276],"class_list":["post-229836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-girls","tag-hosts","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-leading","tag-liberia","tag-narratives","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-summit","tag-yamoussoukro","tag-youth"],"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\/229836","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=229836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}