{"id":231836,"date":"2026-04-30T03:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-s-l-minister-urges-regional-ownership-over-african-health-future\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T03:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:28:18","slug":"liberia-s-l-minister-urges-regional-ownership-over-african-health-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-s-l-minister-urges-regional-ownership-over-african-health-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: S\/L Minister Urges Regional Ownership Over African Health Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2026: Sierra Leone&#8217;s Chief Minister, Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, has called for West Africa to take full ownership of its health future, urging ECOWAS Health Ministers to embrace data-driven innovation as the foundation for transforming healthcare systems across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Delivering a keynote address at the opening of the 27th Ordinary Session of Health Ministers of the West Africa Health Organization (WAHO), Dr. Sengeh challenged regional leaders to rethink&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604290728.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>Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2026: Sierra Leone&#8217;s Chief Minister, Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, has called for West Africa to take full ownership of its health future, urging ECOWAS Health Ministers to embrace data-driven innovation as the foundation for transforming healthcare systems across the region. Delivering a keynote address at the opening of the 27th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231837,"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":[258,256,4380,5760,5731,4712,1107,5941,257,12866,4268,254,6810],"class_list":["post-231836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-future","tag-health","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-ownership","tag-regional","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges"],"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\/231836","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=231836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}