{"id":235961,"date":"2026-06-11T05:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-development-turns-to-pain\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T03:13:14","slug":"liberia-development-turns-to-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-development-turns-to-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Development Turns to Pain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Dozens of residents in the Lakpazee Zoo Road community in Monrovia are calling on the Government of Liberia for urgent intervention after severe flooding they say was triggered by a newly constructed road that lacks an adequate drainage system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The flooding followed heavy overnight rainfall from Saturday into Sunday morning, leaving several homes submerged and forcing families to remain indoors as floodwaters cut through the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">While residents say they welcome government infrastructure&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606100564.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>Dozens of residents in the Lakpazee Zoo Road community in Monrovia are calling on the Government of Liberia for urgent intervention after severe flooding they say was triggered by a newly constructed road that lacks an adequate drainage system. The flooding followed heavy overnight rainfall from Saturday into Sunday morning, leaving several homes submerged and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":235962,"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":[258,256,5989,4712,1107,257,22461,254,7907],"class_list":["post-235961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-development","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pain","tag-south-africa-today","tag-turns"],"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\/235961","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=235961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}