{"id":237907,"date":"2026-07-01T17:58:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-cote-divoire-border-cities-strengthen-ties-to-boost-trade-and-security\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T17:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:58:01","slug":"liberia-cote-divoire-border-cities-strengthen-ties-to-boost-trade-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/liberia-cote-divoire-border-cities-strengthen-ties-to-boost-trade-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia-C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire Border Cities Strengthen Ties to Boost Trade and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The city mayors of Ganta in Liberia and Danan\u00e9 in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire have pledged to deepen bilateral cooperation aimed at strengthening cross-border trade, improving security coordination, and ensuring the free movement of goods and citizens between the two communities in line with the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">The commitment was made during high-level discussions held in Ganta on June 27, 2026, between Ganta City Mayor Samuel S. Hardt and his Ivorian counterpart, Mayor Karlifa Lancine&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607010291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city mayors of Ganta in Liberia and Danan\u00e9 in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire have pledged to deepen bilateral cooperation aimed at strengthening cross-border trade, improving security coordination, and ensuring the free movement of goods and citizens between the two communities in line with the ECOWAS Protocol on Free Movement. The commitment was made during high-level discussions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237908,"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":[1087],"tags":[258,256,6557,1900,9613,6183,6555,5959,1218,20948,257,4586,254,6433,7051,5979],"class_list":["post-237907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boost","tag-border","tag-cities","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-liberiacote","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strengthen","tag-ties","tag-trade"],"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\/237907","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=237907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}