{"id":230278,"date":"2026-04-13T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sets-april-18-groundbreaking-for-364m-western-road-linking-sierra-leone-border\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T12:24:53","slug":"liberia-sets-april-18-groundbreaking-for-364m-western-road-linking-sierra-leone-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sets-april-18-groundbreaking-for-364m-western-road-linking-sierra-leone-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Sets April 18 Groundbreaking for $364m Western Road Linking Sierra Leone Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">MONROVIA \u2014 A major step forward has been taken toward construction of the long-anticipated St. Paul Bridge to Bo-Waterside road corridor, with key stakeholders concluding high-level engagements and announcing April 18 as the date for the official groundbreaking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A meeting bringing together officials from the Ministry of Public Works and local authorities from Bomi and Grand Cape Mount counties focused on final preparations for the infrastructure project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Deputy Minister for Technical Services&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604130291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONROVIA \u2014 A major step forward has been taken toward construction of the long-anticipated St. Paul Bridge to Bo-Waterside road corridor, with key stakeholders concluding high-level engagements and announcing April 18 as the date for the official groundbreaking. A meeting bringing together officials from the Ministry of Public Works and local authorities from Bomi and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230279,"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":[1109],"tags":[54145,258,256,8142,1900,14562,6572,4712,18758,257,7414,7123,6571,1135,254,12623],"class_list":["post-230278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-364m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-april","tag-border","tag-groundbreaking","tag-leone","tag-liberia","tag-linking","tag-news","tag-road","tag-sets","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-western"],"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\/230278","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=230278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}