{"id":232388,"date":"2026-05-05T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sekou-keita-challenges-disqualification-files-appeal-threatens-caf-and-fifa-intervention\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:43:00","slug":"liberia-sekou-keita-challenges-disqualification-files-appeal-threatens-caf-and-fifa-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sekou-keita-challenges-disqualification-files-appeal-threatens-caf-and-fifa-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Sekou Keita Challenges Disqualification, Files Appeal &#8211; Threatens CAF and FIFA Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Monrovia \u2014 Disqualified Liberia Football Association (LFA) presidential aspirant Sekou V. Keita has formally filed an appeal with the LFA Appeals Committee, contesting his exclusion from the upcoming May 15 elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Keita signaled his readiness to escalate the matter to continental and global football authorities if his domestic appeal is denied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">In a statement issued by his campaign team, Keita confirmed that all procedural requirements for the appeal have been fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">This includes the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605050531.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 Disqualified Liberia Football Association (LFA) presidential aspirant Sekou V. Keita has formally filed an appeal with the LFA Appeals Committee, contesting his exclusion from the upcoming May 15 elections. Keita signaled his readiness to escalate the matter to continental and global football authorities if his domestic appeal is denied. In a statement issued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232389,"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":[258,256,8992,3742,6977,23784,9109,14573,8895,9900,4712,1107,257,48703,254,10413],"class_list":["post-232388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-caf","tag-challenges","tag-disqualification","tag-fifa","tag-files","tag-intervention","tag-keita","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-sekou","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens"],"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\/232388","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=232388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}