{"id":237641,"date":"2026-06-28T05:49:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-vice-president-koung-announces-pres-boakais-2029-re-election-bid-says-he-will-serve-as-campaign-manager\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T03:49:15","slug":"liberia-vice-president-koung-announces-pres-boakais-2029-re-election-bid-says-he-will-serve-as-campaign-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-vice-president-koung-announces-pres-boakais-2029-re-election-bid-says-he-will-serve-as-campaign-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Vice President Koung Announces Pres. Boakai&#8217;s 2029 Re-Election Bid &#8211; Says He Will Serve As Campaign Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Vice President Jeremiah Koung has announced President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s intention to seek a second term in the 2039 Presidential and Legislative Elections and said he will serve as the president&#8217;s campaign manager.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Speaking to a large crowd in Zeekehpa Town, Yarwin Mehnsonoh Statutory District, Nimba County, Vice President Koung urged residents to support the ruling Unity Party(UP) and said a re-election would allow the administration to complete ongoing development projects across Liberia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260480.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>Vice President Jeremiah Koung has announced President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s intention to seek a second term in the 2039 Presidential and Legislative Elections and said he will serve as the president&#8217;s campaign manager. Speaking to a large crowd in Zeekehpa Town, Yarwin Mehnsonoh Statutory District, Nimba County, Vice President Koung urged residents to support the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681588:bf6bbca75921c980c9c5f39fdfea9f8a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,4334,10798,12935,4302,38704,4712,1107,5112,257,6911,2450,13072,12990,254,8505],"class_list":["post-237641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-bid","tag-boakais","tag-campaign","tag-koung","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-manager","tag-news","tag-pres","tag-president","tag-reelection","tag-serve","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vice"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681588:bf6bbca75921c980c9c5f39fdfea9f8a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237641","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=237641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}