{"id":233123,"date":"2026-05-13T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-guinea-beats-war-drum-over-solumba-border-dispute\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:00:00","slug":"liberia-guinea-beats-war-drum-over-solumba-border-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/liberia-guinea-beats-war-drum-over-solumba-border-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Guinea Beats War Drum &#8211; Over Solumba Border Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Monrovia \u2014 Guinea&#8217;s representative to the ECOWAS Parliament, Dr. Dansa Kourouma&#8211;also Speaker of Guinea&#8217;s National Transitional Council, has struck a combative tone at the regional body, declaring that Guinea will &#8220;protect&#8221; the disputed Solumba border area, which Liberia says lies within its territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Speaking on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, the head of Liberia&#8217;s delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament and Bomi County Senator Edwin M. Snowe said the issue surfaced during debates, prompting him to ask why&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605130291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Guinea&#8217;s representative to the ECOWAS Parliament, Dr. Dansa Kourouma&#8211;also Speaker of Guinea&#8217;s National Transitional Council, has struck a combative tone at the regional body, declaring that Guinea will &#8220;protect&#8221; the disputed Solumba border area, which Liberia says lies within its territory. Speaking on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, the head of Liberia&#8217;s delegation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680935:8046a29a671b5353e0894ee459edef37:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,8798,1900,9424,21480,4715,1124,4712,257,54382,254,6618],"class_list":["post-233123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beats","tag-border","tag-dispute","tag-drum","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-liberia","tag-news","tag-solumba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680935:8046a29a671b5353e0894ee459edef37:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233123","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=233123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}