{"id":233686,"date":"2026-05-19T04:14:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leoneans-back-regional-mobility-despite-resistance-to-immigration\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T04:14:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:14:57","slug":"sierra-leoneans-back-regional-mobility-despite-resistance-to-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leoneans-back-regional-mobility-despite-resistance-to-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leoneans Back Regional Mobility Despite Resistance to Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">Majority of citizens say they have considered emigrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two-thirds (66%) of Sierra Leoneans say West Africans should be able to move freely across international borders in order to trade or work in other countries. But one in three (33%) think the government should limit people&#8217;s cross-border movement.<\/li>\n<li>About eight in 10 respondents (82%) say that, in practice, crossing international borders is &#8220;difficult&#8221; or &#8220;very difficult.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Only 7% of Sierra Leoneans say they have heard of the&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605180005.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>Majority of citizens say they have considered emigrating. Key findings Two-thirds (66%) of Sierra Leoneans say West Africans should be able to move freely across international borders in order to trade or work in other countries. But one in three (33%) think the government should limit people&#8217;s cross-border movement. About eight in 10 respondents (82%) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":233687,"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":[258,256,9333,13140,33733,257,4268,7940,6571,1135,254],"class_list":["post-233686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-immigration","tag-leoneans","tag-mobility","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-resistance","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/233686","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=233686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}