{"id":230778,"date":"2026-04-20T15:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-boakai-launches-364m-western-corridor-road-vows-no-county-left-behind\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:04:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:04:34","slug":"liberia-boakai-launches-364m-western-corridor-road-vows-no-county-left-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-boakai-launches-364m-western-corridor-road-vows-no-county-left-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Launches $364m Western Corridor Road, Vows No County Left Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">BO WATERSIDE \u2014 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has broken ground for the Western Corridor Road Development Project, declaring Liberia&#8217;s poor road network &#8220;intolerable&#8221; and pledging accelerated infrastructure expansion to connect the country and drive economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Speaking at the ceremony in Bo Waterside, the Liberian leader said the project&#8211;linking Montserrado, Bomi, and Grand Cape Mount counties&#8211;marks a decisive step toward opening up the country and reversing decades of rural isolation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604200483.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>BO WATERSIDE \u2014 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has broken ground for the Western Corridor Road Development Project, declaring Liberia&#8217;s poor road network &#8220;intolerable&#8221; and pledging accelerated infrastructure expansion to connect the country and drive economic growth. Speaking at the ceremony in Bo Waterside, the Liberian leader said the project&#8211;linking Montserrado, Bomi, and Grand Cape Mount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230779,"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":[54145,258,256,7324,12298,5091,5957,7781,4712,257,7414,1135,254,9639,12623],"class_list":["post-230778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-364m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-corridor","tag-county","tag-launches","tag-left","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-road","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vows","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\/230778","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=230778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}