{"id":231675,"date":"2026-04-28T15:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-thousands-spend-nights-on-street\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:24:31","slug":"liberia-thousands-spend-nights-on-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-thousands-spend-nights-on-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Thousands Spend Nights On Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Monrovia \u2014 Thousands of young men and women packed the Armed Forces of Liberia&#8217;s (AFL) Barclay Training Center on Monday, after spending days on the streets, as the Liberian military opened its 2026 recruitment drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The exercise, organized by region, aims to enlist 650 recruits and runs from April 27 to June 27, 2026, as the AFL seeks to strengthen national security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Recruitment for the Central Region&#8211;Montserrado, Grand Bassa, and Margibi counties&#8211;opened at the Barclay Training Center on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604280241.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 Thousands of young men and women packed the Armed Forces of Liberia&#8217;s (AFL) Barclay Training Center on Monday, after spending days on the streets, as the Liberian military opened its 2026 recruitment drive. The exercise, organized by region, aims to enlist 650 recruits and runs from April 27 to June 27, 2026, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231676,"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":[258,256,4712,1107,257,8211,254,8210,7714,9216],"class_list":["post-231675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spend","tag-street","tag-thousands"],"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\/231675","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=231675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}