{"id":240942,"date":"2026-08-12T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberians-in-germany-head-to-polls-as-wesseh-pushes-unity-reform-agenda\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:38:00","slug":"liberians-in-germany-head-to-polls-as-wesseh-pushes-unity-reform-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberians-in-germany-head-to-polls-as-wesseh-pushes-unity-reform-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberians in Germany Head to Polls As Wesseh Pushes Unity, Reform Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">MONROVIA \u2014 Liberians residing in Germany are preparing for a closely watched election Saturday, Aug. 15, that will determine the next leadership of the Liberian Association in Germany, with presidential candidate Samuel Yorsen Wesseh making unity, inclusion and institutional reform central to his campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">With preparations reportedly finalized, members of the Liberian community are expected to vote for a new leadership to steer the association and strengthen its role as a collective voice and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120511.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>MONROVIA \u2014 Liberians residing in Germany are preparing for a closely watched election Saturday, Aug. 15, that will determine the next leadership of the Liberian Association in Germany, with presidential candidate Samuel Yorsen Wesseh making unity, inclusion and institutional reform central to his campaign. With preparations reportedly finalized, members of the Liberian community are expected [&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":[258,256,5701,690,1107,6565,257,8059,16296,6099,254,4019,23019],"class_list":["post-240942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agenda","tag-germany","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-news","tag-polls","tag-pushes","tag-reform","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unity","tag-wesseh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240942","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=240942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240942\/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=240942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}