{"id":236107,"date":"2026-06-12T17:15:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ad1194-majority-of-liberians-consider-emigration-but-favour-reducing-entry-by-job-seekers-refugees\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:15:56","slug":"liberia-ad1194-majority-of-liberians-consider-emigration-but-favour-reducing-entry-by-job-seekers-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ad1194-majority-of-liberians-consider-emigration-but-favour-reducing-entry-by-job-seekers-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ad1194 &#8211; Majority of Liberians Consider Emigration but Favour Reducing Entry By Job Seekers, Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Interest in moving abroad is highest among citizens with full-time jobs, the most educated, and youth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than three-fourths (78%) of Liberians say West Africans should be able to move freely across international borders in order to trade or work in other countries.<\/li>\n<li>Seven in 10 respondents (72%) say that in practice, crossing international borders is &#8220;difficult&#8221; or &#8220;very difficult.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Only 13% of Liberians say they have heard of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).<\/li>\n<li>More&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120425.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>Interest in moving abroad is highest among citizens with full-time jobs, the most educated, and youth. Key findings More than three-fourths (78%) of Liberians say West Africans should be able to move freely across international borders in order to trade or work in other countries. Seven in 10 respondents (72%) say that in practice, crossing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236108,"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":[54604,258,256,21987,6425,24897,9679,4712,1107,6565,7334,257,8844,1219,7302,254],"class_list":["post-236107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-ad1194","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-emigration","tag-entry","tag-favour","tag-job","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-majority","tag-news","tag-reducing","tag-refugees","tag-seekers","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\/236107","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=236107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}