{"id":241281,"date":"2026-08-17T07:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sweden-ends-18-year-bilateral-aid-to-liberia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T07:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:46:57","slug":"liberia-sweden-ends-18-year-bilateral-aid-to-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-sweden-ends-18-year-bilateral-aid-to-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Sweden Ends 18-Year Bilateral Aid to Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">MONROVIA \u2014 Sweden&#8217;s nearly 18-year bilateral development cooperation with Liberia will officially end on August 31, 2026, leaving the Liberian government with the challenge of sustaining programs supported by the European nation since the country&#8217;s post-war recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Since 2008, Swedish assistance has supported programs covering democratic governance, land rights, gender equality, education, healthcare, infrastructure, natural resource management, institutional strengthening and private-sector&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608140167.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 Sweden&#8217;s nearly 18-year bilateral development cooperation with Liberia will officially end on August 31, 2026, leaving the Liberian government with the challenge of sustaining programs supported by the European nation since the country&#8217;s post-war recovery. Since 2008, Swedish assistance has supported programs covering democratic governance, land rights, gender equality, education, healthcare, infrastructure, natural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241282,"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":[1086],"tags":[27298,258,256,7828,6333,7933,4712,1107,257,254,11285],"class_list":["post-241281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-18year","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-bilateral","tag-ends","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sweden"],"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\/241281","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=241281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}