{"id":236069,"date":"2026-06-12T05:15:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-to-preside-over-unsc-in-december\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:15:03","slug":"liberia-to-preside-over-unsc-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-to-preside-over-unsc-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia to Preside Over UNSC in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In December 2026, Liberia will take its seat at the head of the United Nations Security Council table, presiding over the world&#8217;s most powerful body responsible for maintaining international peace and security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The moment will mark a remarkable chapter in Liberia&#8217;s diplomatic journey: a country that once depended on Security Council resolutions to end war and sustain peace will now be responsible for guiding the Council&#8217;s work during one of its monthly sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Foreign Minister Sarah Beysolow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606110321.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>In December 2026, Liberia will take its seat at the head of the United Nations Security Council table, presiding over the world&#8217;s most powerful body responsible for maintaining international peace and security. The moment will mark a remarkable chapter in Liberia&#8217;s diplomatic journey: a country that once depended on Security Council resolutions to end war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236070,"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":[258,256,6939,4712,1107,257,42113,254,11734],"class_list":["post-236069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-december","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-preside","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unsc"],"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\/236069","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=236069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}