{"id":238833,"date":"2026-07-16T18:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-say-guns-were-being-moved-to-arm-stand-protesters\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:37:17","slug":"liberia-police-say-guns-were-being-moved-to-arm-stand-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-say-guns-were-being-moved-to-arm-stand-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Police Say Guns Were Being Moved to Arm Stand Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Blomo N. Toe &amp; Roseline Gbessagee \u2014 <em>Someone was moving illegal firearms into position to be used during this week&#8217;s nationwide protest, Liberia&#8217;s police chief said Wednesday, and investigators have identified who they believe was behind it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Inspector General of Police Gregory O. W. Coleman, in a national address two days before the Solidarity and Trust for a New Day demonstration, named Kollie Borbor as the principal suspect in what he described as an illegal firearms distribution scheme&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607160660.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>Blomo N. Toe &amp; Roseline Gbessagee \u2014 Someone was moving illegal firearms into position to be used during this week&#8217;s nationwide protest, Liberia&#8217;s police chief said Wednesday, and investigators have identified who they believe was behind it. Inspector General of Police Gregory O. W. Coleman, in a national address two days before the Solidarity and [&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":[258,256,23385,2235,4712,1107,11567,257,662,4397,254,12397],"class_list":["post-238833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arm","tag-guns","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-moved","tag-news","tag-police","tag-protesters","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238833","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=238833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238833\/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=238833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}