{"id":229892,"date":"2026-04-09T02:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-showdown-looms-as-finance-minister-seeks-delay-in-u-s-350000-jfk-negligence-case\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:16:48","slug":"liberia-court-showdown-looms-as-finance-minister-seeks-delay-in-u-s-350000-jfk-negligence-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-showdown-looms-as-finance-minister-seeks-delay-in-u-s-350000-jfk-negligence-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Court Showdown Looms As Finance Minister Seeks Delay in U.S.$350,000 JFK Negligence Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Monrovia \u2014 Outrage continue to mount against the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning after legal standoff over justice for a Liberian woman left permanently injured by a botched surgery at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center took a new turn Tuesday, April 7, as Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan intervened, requesting more time for the government to respond to a long-overdue Supreme Court judgment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Karen Gaydou Sehkehporh, whose life was irreversibly altered following the failed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604080360.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 Outrage continue to mount against the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning after legal standoff over justice for a Liberian woman left permanently injured by a botched surgery at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center took a new turn Tuesday, April 7, as Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan intervened, requesting more time for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229893,"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":[258,256,6683,6185,8036,7829,23561,4712,1107,12647,5941,32095,257,8111,11502,254,47483],"class_list":["post-229892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-court","tag-delay","tag-finance","tag-jfk","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-looms","tag-minister","tag-negligence","tag-news","tag-seeks","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-350000"],"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\/229892","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=229892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}