{"id":238622,"date":"2026-07-13T06:27:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-seeks-house-approval-for-u-s-16-7m-afdb-loan-to-finance-2026-budget-deficit\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:27:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:27:46","slug":"liberia-boakai-seeks-house-approval-for-u-s-16-7m-afdb-loan-to-finance-2026-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-seeks-house-approval-for-u-s-16-7m-afdb-loan-to-finance-2026-budget-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Seeks House Approval for U.S.$16.7m AfDB Loan to Finance 2026 Budget Deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>Published:<\/em> July 8, 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\"><strong>CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia &#8212;<\/strong> President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has asked the House of Representatives to ratify two loan agreements totaling 12.11 million Units of Account (US$16.7 million) from the African Development Fund and the African Development Bank&#8217;s Transition Support Facility to help finance part of Liberia&#8217;s 2026 national budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">In a communication addressed to Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon and read during Tuesday&#8217;s plenary session, Boakai urged lawmakers to give&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607090252.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>Published: July 8, 2026 CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia &#8212; President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has asked the House of Representatives to ratify two loan agreements totaling 12.11 million Units of Account (US$16.7 million) from the African Development Fund and the African Development Bank&#8217;s Transition Support Facility to help finance part of Liberia&#8217;s 2026 national budget deficit. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[9155,258,256,8113,7324,6080,14732,7829,5110,4712,1107,8828,257,8111,254,54830],"class_list":["post-238622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-afdb","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approval","tag-boakai","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-finance","tag-house","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-loan","tag-news","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-16-7m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238622","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=238622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}