{"id":241614,"date":"2026-08-20T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-up-backs-joint-security-over-taylor-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:53:41","slug":"liberia-up-backs-joint-security-over-taylor-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-up-backs-joint-security-over-taylor-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: UP Backs Joint Security Over Taylor Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">MONROVIA \u2014 The governing Unity Party (UP) has commended the Joint Security over the investigation and subsequent charges against former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor in connection with the ongoing multimillion-dollar cocaine probe, urging security agencies to remain professional and not be swayed by political or public pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">In a statement issued Wednesday, August 19, under the signature of National Assistant Secretary General for Press, Publicity and Outreach Lansana Pawenneh Fofana,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608200316.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 The governing Unity Party (UP) has commended the Joint Security over the investigation and subsequent charges against former Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor in connection with the ongoing multimillion-dollar cocaine probe, urging security agencies to remain professional and not be swayed by political or public pressure. In a statement issued Wednesday, August 19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241615,"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":[258,256,7102,7578,6984,4712,1107,257,4586,254,10287],"class_list":["post-241614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backs","tag-charges","tag-joint","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taylor"],"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\/241614","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=241614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}