{"id":236167,"date":"2026-06-13T05:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-csa-director-general-calls-for-constitutional-reform\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T05:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:16:53","slug":"liberia-csa-director-general-calls-for-constitutional-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-csa-director-general-calls-for-constitutional-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: CSA Director General Calls for Constitutional Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><em>&#8211;As &#8220;Strategic Necessity&#8221; for Liberia&#8217;s Future<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Monrovia, June 12, 2026 &#8211; Dr. Josiah F. Joekai Jr., Director-General of the Civil Service Agency, has called for the modernization of Liberia&#8217;s 1986 Constitution, describing reform as a &#8220;strategic necessity&#8221; to consolidate peace and promote development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Dr. Joekai presented his paper, &#8220;Constitutional Reform in Liberia: An Assessment of the Gloria Scott Committee Report,&#8221; on June 11 at Monrovia City Hall during a two-day Public Policy Dialogue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120354.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>&#8211;As &#8220;Strategic Necessity&#8221; for Liberia&#8217;s Future Monrovia, June 12, 2026 &#8211; Dr. Josiah F. Joekai Jr., Director-General of the Civil Service Agency, has called for the modernization of Liberia&#8217;s 1986 Constitution, describing reform as a &#8220;strategic necessity&#8221; to consolidate peace and promote development. Dr. Joekai presented his paper, &#8220;Constitutional Reform in Liberia: An Assessment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236168,"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":[258,256,6137,9729,16352,400,6768,4712,1107,257,6099,254],"class_list":["post-236167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-constitutional","tag-csa","tag-director","tag-general","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-reform","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\/236167","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=236167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}